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
written before on the disk without warning!
See Also
Mtools’ texinfo doc
Viewing the texi doc
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you to use the original texinfo doc. See the end of this manpage for
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following commands:
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* To generate an info copy (browsable using emacs’ info mode),
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