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| Do you need to list the files on a DOS-formatted floppy disk while running Linux? Do you need to copy a file from a DOS disk to your Linux file system, or vice versa? You can use the MTOOLS commands to do these and lots of other DOS-like things with Linux.
The MTOOLS package is a set of Linux commands that mimic the DOS commands DIR, COPY, TYPE, DEL, RENAME, and a few others. They're called the MTOOLS because they all start with the letter m, and they work much like their DOS counterparts. Here's a list of the MTOOLS commands and what they do: matttrib Modify the attributes of a file. mcd Change the current directory. mcopy Copy a file. mdel Delete a file. mdir List the files in the directory. mformat Format a disk. mlabel Change the disk label. mmd Make a new directory. mrd Remove a directory. mren Rename a file. mtype Display the contents of a file. Okay, pop a DOS disk in the machine and let's try some examples. Here we see the mdir command in action, listing the files on a disk: $ mdir A: Volume in drive A has no label Volume Serial Number is 1205-1049 Directory of A:\ COMMAND COM 54,645 05-31-94 6:22a FORMAT COM 22,974 05-31-94 6:22a SYS COM 9,432 05-31-94 6:22a MOUSE COM 28,949 04-02-93 4:39p EDIT COM 413 05-31-94 6:22a FDISK EXE 29,336 01-01-97 12:39a 6 file(s) 145,749 bytes 1,311,915 bytes free Now let's copy a file from Linux to the disk, and vice versa: $ mcopy A:pandavu.tgz /tmp $ mcopy /tmp/kornmeal.txt A: The mcopy command figures out in which direction to perform the file transfer by looking for the A: in either the source or the target file name. If you have two floppy drives, you can use B: when referring to the second floppy drive. Here's an example showing the use of the mdel command to delete a file on the disk: $ mdel mouse.com Note that we didn't prefix the name of the file to be deleted with A: this time. All of the MTOOLS commands (except mcopy) assume that you're working with the A drive, so you can omit the A: if you like, but I recommend that you don't, just for safety's sake. |
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