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Upgraded to Linux only to learn the hard way that your "WinModem" was given that name for a reason?

If you still have a DOS/Windows partition you can download to your heart's content, save the downloaded files on your DOS partition, and create a mount point for it.

Log on as root (of course)
open a terminal window (if you already started XWindows)
type mkdir /dos (or any other name you want to give it)
type mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /dos (if your DOS partition is anywhere other than hda1, substitute accordingly)
type linuxconf, or open X and get there graphically.
scroll down to the File Systems branch and open the listing of all mount points on your system
click the Add button
type in the name of your DOS partition (/dos if you have followed word for word)
select msdos as the type
enter a mount point (/mnt/dos)
Click accept, close linuxconf, and open your disk manager or type mount/mnt/dos
You can now see everything in the DOS partition, and if you downloaded any RPMs or tar.gz files you can open/extract them normally now. You can also easily port Excel spreadsheets to GNUmeric or StarOffice.

I'm still playing with this and learning what else I can retrieve from DOS to LINUX