mcat(1)								      mcat(1)



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
       This 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 repre-
       sentation 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.

       *      To generate a printable copy from the texinfo doc, run the fol-
	      lowing commands:

		     ./configure; make dvi; dvips mtools.dvi



       *      To generate a html copy,	run:

		     ./configure; make html

	      A premade html can be found  at:	'http://mtools.linux.lu'  and
	      also at: 'http://www.tux.org/pub/knaff/mtools'

       *      To  generate  an	info copy (browsable using emacs' info mode),
	      run:

		     ./configure; make info



       The texinfo doc looks most pretty when printed or as html.  Indeed, in
       the  info  version  certain  examples are difficult to read due to the
       quoting conventions used in info.




mtools-3.9.9			   03Mar03			      mcat(1)

UNIX/Linux commands referenced on this page:

1. dump
2. raw
3. man
4. floppy
5. as
6. cat
7. mtools
8. view
9. make
10. info