Name

       mcat - dump raw disk image

Note of warning

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       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 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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