Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Xeno Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.mint,aus.computers,alt.os.linux.debian Subject: Re: simple Linux Mint file transfer question Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2025 22:35:27 +1000 Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: <107gvck$3m18l$1@dont-email.me> <107h25f$3mgcl$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net 9Ww7ttmgZ0yDxYUwTDtPHgvf1l8soxqcYrznUzmmancWOchKQM Cancel-Lock: sha1:wLu0PwHmghBLd/xTcVhxDsxZ2qg= sha256:txpbPqAv/qzmAjF/dP3oGOOH0mKLb/lViCzLCLXlCZg= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com alt.os.linux.mint:45079 aus.computers:72724 alt.os.linux.debian:10664 On 14/8/2025 2:38 pm, Felix wrote: > Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: >> On Tue, 12 Aug 2025 23:04:52 -0400, Alan K. wrote: >> >>> as /media/alan/DATA or /media/alan/C_Drive >> What happened to “A” and “B” drives? > > they're floppies > I haven't had a floppy drive in a computer for yonks, the last 3 new ones didn't even have CD/DVD drives. Even the few PCs I have built in recent times - like the past 20 years - had 250 Meg Zip Drives and they were rarely used. A: and B: names should be freed up to reflect current computer usage. -- Xeno Nothing astonishes Noddy so much as common sense and plain dealing. (with apologies to Ralph Waldo Emerson)