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- This version of mtools contains changes by David MacKenzie
- (djm@eng.umd.edu) to support the IBM RT under 4.3BSD (ACIS).
-
- MTOOLS
- version 2.0
-
- Mtools is a public domain collection of programs to allow Unix systems
- to read, write, and manipulate files on an MSDOS filesystem (typically a
- diskette).
-
- The following MSDOS commands are emulated:
-
- Mtool MSDOS
- name equivalent Description
- ----- ---- -----------
- mattrib ATTRIB change MSDOS file attribute flags
- mcd CD change MSDOS directory
- mcopy COPY copy MSDOS files to/from Unix
- mdel DEL/ERASE delete an MSDOS file
- mdir DIR display an MSDOS directory
- mformat FORMAT add MSDOS filesystem to a low-level format
- mlabel LABEL make an MSDOS volume label.
- mmd MD/MKDIR make an MSDOS subdirectory
- mrd RD/RMDIR remove an MSDOS subdirectory
- mread COPY low level read (copy) an MSDOS file to Unix
- mren REN/RENAME rename an existing MSDOS file
- mtype TYPE display contents of an MSDOS file
- mwrite COPY low level write (copy) a Unix file to MSDOS
-
- You should be able to just close your eyes and pretend you're on an MSDOS
- system. Everything should work the same... except for the added 'm' at
- the beginning of each command.
-
- I really wanted to avoid the use of a 'text' mode and a 'data' mode when
- transferring files, but I couldn't find a better way. It gets rather
- confusing and it's quite possible to mess up a file if you apply the
- text mode when it is not appropriate (ie: to a COM or EXE file).
-
- The pattern matching routine more closely resembles Unix than MSDOS.
- For example, "*" matches all MSDOS files in lieu of "*.*".
-
- The use of wildcards (or the '\' separator) will require the names to be
- enclosed in quotes to protect them from the shell. For example:
-
- RIGHT: mcopy "a:*.c" .
-
- will copy all files on the A: disk with the extension .C to the
- current Unix directory.
-
- WRONG: mcopy a:*.c .
-
- will cause the shell to expand a:*.c in the current Unix directory
- (which is probably not what you wanted) then copy that list of
- files (if there were any) from A: to the current Unix directory.
-
- RIGHT: mcopy *.c a:
-
- will copy all files with the extension .c in the current Unix
- directory to the A: drive. (This time you *want* the shell
- the expand the *.c).
-
- The manuals are very terse... it's assumed that the reader is already
- familiar with MSDOS.
-
- Mcopy is really a front-end to the low level Mread and Mwrite commands.
-
- Please *DO* read the Configure file and the Release.notes (that's why
- they're there...).
-
- Emmet P. Gray US Army, HQ III Corps & Fort Hood
- ...!uunet!uiucuxc!fthood!egray Attn: AFZF-DE-ENV
- fthood!egray@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu Directorate of Engineering & Housing
- Environmental Management Office
- Fort Hood, TX 76544-5057
-