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 hap-
     pily  destroy  any  data  written before on the disk without
     warning!

See Also
     Mtools' texinfo doc

Viewing the texi doc
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     texinfo documentation. However, this process is only approx-
     imative, and some items, such as crossreferences,  footnotes
     and  indices  are lost in this translation process.  Indeed,
     these items have no appropriate representation in  the  man-
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     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 following 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



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     Indeed,  in  the info version certain examples are difficult
     to read due to the quoting conventions used in info.