[Wine]Access to floppy disk drive from wine-installed programs

[Adam Cooper]

Andy Allen wrote:
> Can anybody please tell me how to access the floppy disk drive from
> wine-installed programs? I've installed some basic accounting software
> which backs-up to floppy (don't laugh!), but when I try to do this I get
> the message "no removable drives..." even though I've mounted the floppy
> drive. The CDROM (fake d:) drive is listed in dosdevices, but floppy
> (fake a: ?) doesn't seem to be. Any suggestions please,

The dosdevices directory contains sym(bolic)-links to the actual 
devices. To add the floppy drive you just need to create a new link to 
the device i.e. /mnt/floppy (or whatever your distro uses). To do this 
check out the man pages for 'ln'.

Hope that helps