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% Copyright 1997 Marco Nelissen.
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% Copyright 1996-1998,2001,2002,2009 Alain Knaff.
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% This documentation is for Mtools which is a collection of tools to
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% allow Unix systems to manipulate MS-DOS files.
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% Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
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% under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or
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% any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no
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% Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover
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% Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled
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% ``GNU Free Documentation License''.
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NOTE: THIS FILE ONLY REFERS TO THE BEBOX. IF YOU ARE USING UNIX,
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REFER TO README.
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This is mtools 3.6 for BeOS DR9. This release will no longer work on
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DR8, which should be no problem since everybody should have upgraded
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to DR9 by now. mtools 3.6 can be used as a replacement for the
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version 2.0.7 mtools supplied with BeOS. mtools 3.6 supports the VFAT
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filesystem (long filenames), which the Be-supplied tools do not.
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To install:
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- build the executables: type "make -f Makefile.Be" in the mtools
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directory. Again, this instruction is only for the Bebox, not for any
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kind of Unix. They should compile without any warnings or errors.
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WARNING: do NOT rerun the configure script. Although DR9 bash will
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no longer lock up when running the configure script, the resulting
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files are not entirely correct, and mtools will fail to compile. I
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have hand-crafted a config.h that can be used to compile mtools. This
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will be used if you just type "make -f Makefile.Be"
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- copy the "mtools" executable (and perhaps also "mkmanifest") to /bin,
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or to another directory in your path.
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Since all of the mtools-commands are contained within a single
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executable, you must either define aliases for each command, or create
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links for them.
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To create aliases, add the following lines to the file /boot/.profile
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alias mattrib="mtools -c mattrib"
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alias mbadblocks="mtools -c mbadblocks"
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alias mcd="mtools -c mcd"
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alias mcopy="mtools -c mcopy"
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alias mdel="mtools -c mdel"
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alias mdeltree="mtools -c mdeltree"
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alias mdir="mtools -c mdir"
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alias mformat="mtools -c mformat"
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alias minfo="mtools -c minfo"
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alias mlabel="mtools -c mlabel"
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alias mmd="mtools -c mmd"
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alias mmount="mtools -c mmount"
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alias mrd="mtools -c mrd"
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alias mmove="mtools -c mmove"
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alias mpartition="mtools -c mpartition"
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alias mren="mtools -c mren"
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alias mtoolstest="mtools -c mtoolstest"
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alias mtest="mtools -c mtest"
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alias mtype="mtools -c mtype"
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alias mzip="mtools -c mzip"
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(then close and re-open all terminals and shells, or type
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". /boot/.profile" in each open terminal to activate the
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aliases. Optional: remove the old mtools from the /bin directory)
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To create links, open a shell, and type the following commands
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(assuming you copied the mtools executable to /bin):
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cd /bin
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rm mattrib mcd mcopy mdel mdir mformat mkmanifest mlabel mmd mrd mread mren mtype mwrite
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ln -s mtools mattrib
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ln -s mtools mbadblocks
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ln -s mtools mcd
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ln -s mtools mcopy
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ln -s mtools mdel
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ln -s mtools mdeltree
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ln -s mtools mdir
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ln -s mtools mformat
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ln -s mtools minfo
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ln -s mtools mlabel
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ln -s mtools mmd
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ln -s mtools mmount
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ln -s mtools mrd
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ln -s mtools mread
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ln -s mtools mmove
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ln -s mtools mpartition
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ln -s mtools mren
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ln -s mtools mtoolstest
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ln -s mtools mtest
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ln -s mtools mtype
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ln -s mtools mwrite
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ln -s mtools mzip
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Alternatively, make multiple copies of the "mtools" executable and use
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the names mdir, mdel etcetera.
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- if you want more than just floppy support, you need to make a configuration
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file. An example mtools.conf.be is included in the distribution.
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mtools looks in a number of standard places for its config file, such as:
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/boot/.mtoolsrc
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/boot/mtools.conf
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/boot/system/mtools.conf
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By defining the variable MTOOLSRC you can give the config file any name you
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like and put it at any location.
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You need to add something like "export MTOOLSRC=/conf/mtools.cfg" to
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your .profile file.
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Take care to remove or change the entries that you don't need. The provided
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mtools.conf is for unix systems, with some BeOS settings at the end.
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The sample entry for a ZIP disk on the BeOS has been provided by
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Chris Herborth
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(chrish@qnx.com).
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- enjoy!
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Marco Nelissen <marcone@xs4all.nl>
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Alain Knaff <alain@knaff.lu>
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