117 lines
3.6 KiB
Groff
117 lines
3.6 KiB
Groff
.TH MTOOLS 1
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.SH NAME
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mtools \- tools to access FAT file systems
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.B mtools
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.RB [ \-V ]
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.B msdos_command
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.RI [ \-msdos_options ]
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.RI arguments " ..."
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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.de SP
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.if t .sp 0.4
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.if n .sp
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..
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.B Mtools
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is a collection of utilities to access MS-DOS (FAT) disks from Unix without
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mounting them. It supports the long filenames of Windows NT and Windows 95.
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It does not support NTFS disks.
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.P
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Some versions of mtools for other operating systems provide separate
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commands, such as mdir, mcopy, etc., to emulate similar MS-DOS and Windows
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command line commands. The version ported to Minix takes the MS-DOS
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command (dir, copy, etc.) as its first argument. Supported MS-DOS
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commands are:
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.B attrib,
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.B badblocks,
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.B cat,
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.B cd,
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.B copy,
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.B del,
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.B deltree,
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.B dir,
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.B doctorfat,
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.B du,
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.B format,
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.B info,
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.B label,
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.B md,
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.B mkdir,
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.B partition,
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.B rd,
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.B rmdir,
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.B read,
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.B move,
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.B ren,
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.B showfat,
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.B type,
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.B write
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.P
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The MS-DOS options are the same as for DOS commands, except they are prefaced
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with "-" instead of "\\".
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.P
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Use 'mtools msdos_command -?' for help per command. (This tells you "-?"
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is an illegal command, but, as with Unix systems, entering an illegal command
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often is the easiest way to find out what are the legal commands.)
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.P
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Note that a disk argument must be terminate by or separated from a path by
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a colon (":").
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If no disk argument is given mtools assumes you meant "/dev/fd0:", the
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first floppy disk drive.
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.SH OPTIONS
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.TP
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.B \-V
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Show the mtools version and configuration
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.SH EXAMPLES
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.de EX
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.TP 20
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\\fB\\$1\\fR
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# \\$2
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..
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.EX "mtools dir" "show directory of MS-DOS floppy in drive A:."
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.EX "mtools copy /dev/c0d0p0:file.txt ." "copy file.txt from MS-DOS root directory to current Minix directory."
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
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.BR dosdir (1).
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.BR dosread (1).
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.BR doswrite (1).
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.SH NOTES
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.P
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Mtools requires a lot of memory. The default on a Minix 3 installation
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is over 10 MB. A default configured mtools would not run on a system
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with only 16 MB RAM. You may be able to make do by using chmem to
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reduce the memory allocation of mtools. On the 16 MB system mentioned
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mtools still works with a reduction of the memory allocation to half
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the original value. The amount of memory you need depends upon the
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size of the MS-DOS or Windows file systems you want to access.
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Typically systems with big disks also have large amounts of memory. If
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mtools won't work for you, you may be able to fall back to the old
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dosdir, dosread, and doswrite Minix utilities if the FAT file system
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you want to access is small enough (the dos* utilities can access FAT16
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partitions up to 256 MB size).
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.P
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This man page does not attempt to be complete. A lot of information is
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available on line. To use mtools well you also need to be familiar with
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the options for the corresponding MS-DOS commands.
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For more information see the mtools website, http://mtools.linux.lu/.
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.P
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Mtools-3.9.10 was released on 1 March 2005. The Minix port is of the
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earlier Mtools version 3.9.7, dated 1 June 2000.
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.P
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The Minix port is configured with the following options: disable-xdf
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disable-vold disable-new-vold disable-debug disable-raw-term (read the source
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to understand what these mean).
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.SH BUGS
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Yes, bugs may exist, but as this man page is written we don't know of any.
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Please report any you find.
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.P
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As with any program that accesses a foreign file system, reading is probably
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safe, but you may want to experiment carefully before using these programs to
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write to a Windows system.
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.SH AUTHOR
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Mtools is maintained by David Niemi and Alain Knaff.
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.P
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Ported to Minix 2.0.3 by Kees J. Bot <kjb@cs.vu.nl>.
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.P
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This man page compiled by Al Woodhull <asw@woodhull.com>.
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.\" rev 2006-06-17
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