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| .TH mcat 1 "28Nov20" mtools-4.0.26 |
| .SH Name |
| mcat - dump raw disk image |
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| .SH Note\ of\ warning |
| This manpage has been automatically generated from mtools's texinfo |
| documentation, and may not be entirely accurate or complete. See the |
| end of this man page for details. |
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| .SH Description |
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| The \fR\&\f(CWmcat\fR command is used to copy an entire disk image from or |
| to the floppy device. It uses the following syntax: |
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| \&\fR\&\f(CWmcat\fR [\fR\&\f(CW-w\fR] \fIdrive\fR\fR\&\f(CW:\fR |
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| \&\fR\&\f(CWMcat\fR performs the same task as the Unix \fR\&\f(CWcat\fR command. It |
| is included into the mtools package, since \fR\&\f(CWcat\fR cannot access |
| remote floppy devices offered by the mtools floppy daemon. |
| Now it is possible to create boot floppies remotely. |
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| The default operation is reading. The output is written to stdout. |
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| If the \fR\&\f(CW-w\fR option is specified, mcat reads a disk-image from |
| stdin and writes it to the given device. |
| \&\fBUse this carefully!\fR Because of the low-level nature of this |
| command, it will happily destroy any data written before on the |
| disk without warning! |
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| .SH See\ Also |
| Mtools' texinfo doc |
| .SH Viewing\ the\ texi\ doc |
| This manpage has been automatically generated from mtools's texinfo |
| documentation. However, this process is only approximative, and some |
| items, such as crossreferences, footnotes and indices are lost in this |
| translation process. Indeed, these items have no appropriate |
| representation in the manpage format. Moreover, not all information has |
| been translated into the manpage version. Thus I strongly advise you to |
| use the original texinfo doc. See the end of this manpage for |
| instructions how to view the texinfo doc. |
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| * \ \ |
| To generate a printable copy from the texinfo doc, run the following |
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| ./configure; make dvi; dvips mtools.dvi |
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| To generate a html copy, run: |
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| ./configure; make html |
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| \&\fRA premade html can be found at |
| \&\fR\&\f(CW\(ifhttp://www.gnu.org/software/mtools/manual/mtools.html\(is\fR |
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| To generate an info copy (browsable using emacs' info mode), run: |
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| ./configure; make info |
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| The texinfo doc looks most pretty when printed or as html. Indeed, in |
| the info version certain examples are difficult to read due to the |
| quoting conventions used in info. |
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