Question about keyboards & Linux

[Bob Batson]

I almost forgot -- what's a simple & practical method of transferring a
large (94.1 MB) directory (& many sub-directories) of text files from my
OS/2 computer (HPFS formatted) to the new Linux computer I'll be getting
in a month or so?

The files have long filenames and a few of the larger files have
archived with either zip or tar.gz.

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