Accessing my CD-Drive

[W. Nick Dotson]

I've brailled and read Janina's advice to me about how to copy my "tar" and "gz" html document files.  However, I'm still missing something with respect to 
accessing my cd-rom drive.  I've tried such things as:
"/dev/fdc"
and
"cd /dev/fdc"
to no avail.  Do I have to "mount" the drive first, to be able to access it, and see thefile names?  Maybe,
"mount /dev/fdc"?

Nick