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Manpages mcatSection: User Commands (1)Updated: 02Jun01 Index Return to Main Contents Namemcat - dump raw disk image
Note of warningThis 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.DescriptionThe 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 AlsoMtools' texinfo docViewing the texi docThis 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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