1 .TH mcat 1 "03Nov09" mtools-4.0.12
3 mcat - dump raw disk image
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22 The \fR\&\f(CWmcat\fR command is used to copy an entire disk image from or
23 to the floppy device. It uses the following syntax:
25 \&\fR\&\f(CWmcat\fR [\fR\&\f(CW-w\fR] \fIdrive\fR\fR\&\f(CW:\fR
27 .iX "c Copying an entire disk image"
31 \&\fR\&\f(CWMcat\fR performs the same task as the unix \fR\&\f(CWcat\fR command. It
32 is included into the mtools package, since \fR\&\f(CWcat\fR cannot access
33 remote floppy devices offered by the mtools floppy daemon.
34 Now it is possible to create boot floppies remotely.
36 The default operation is reading. The output is written to stdout.
38 If the \fR\&\f(CW-w\fR option is specified, mcat reads a disk-image from
39 stdin and writes it to the given device.
40 \&\fBUse this carefully!\fR Because of the lowlevel nature of this
41 command, it will happily destroy any data written before on the
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