Name

       mcat - dump raw disk image

Note of warning

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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 low-level nature of this command, it will happily destroy any data written
       before on the disk without warning!

See Also

       Mtools' texinfo doc

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