How do I read and write to a floppy disk?

Okay. Got asked this one today and I had to go remind myself how to do this in AIX.

AIX has :-

Floppies, in the AIX world normal means using the /dev/fd0 device (or /dev/fd1 for a second floppy drive etc.).

Writing files from the current directory to a DOS-formatted floppy:

for i in *
do
   doswrite $i $i
done

Reading files from a DOS-formatted floppy to the current directory:

dosdir | awk '!/There are/ {print $1}'|xargs -t -i dosread {} {}

Please note : the commands here assume you are using /dev/fd0. If you are using something else, you should add the -D option. See man pages.