mcat

mcat(1)                                                                mcat(1)



Name
       mcat - dump raw disk image



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.


Description
       The  mcat  command  is used to copy an entire disk image from or to the
       floppy device. It uses the following syntax:

       mcat [-w] drive:

       Mcat performs the same task as the unix cat  command.  It  is  included
       into  the mtools package, since cat cannot access remote floppy devices
       offered by the mtools floppy daemon.  Now it is possible to create boot
       floppies remotely.

       The default operation is reading. The output is written to stdout.

       If  the  -w option is specified, mcat reads a disk-image from stdin and
       writes it to the given device.  Use  this  carefully!  Because  of  the
       lowlevel nature of this command, it will happily destroy any data writ-
       ten before on the disk without warning!


See Also
       Mtools' texinfo doc

Viewing the texi doc
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       items, such as crossreferences, footnotes and indices are lost in  this
       translation process.  Indeed, these items have no appropriate represen-
       tation 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.

       *      To  generate a printable copy from the texinfo doc, run the fol-
              lowing commands:

                     ./configure; make dvi; dvips mtools.dvi



       *      To generate a html copy,  run:

                     ./configure; make html

              A premade html can be  found  at:  `http://mtools.linux.lu'  and
              also at: `http://www.tux.org/pub/knaff/mtools'

       *      To  generate  an  info  copy (browsable using emacs' info mode),
              run:

                     ./configure; make info



       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.




mtools-3.9.8                        02Jun01                            mcat(1)