1mzip(1)                     General Commands Manual                    mzip(1)
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Name

6       mzip - change protection mode and eject disk on Zip/Jaz drive
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Note of warning

11       This  manpage  has  been  automatically generated from mtools's texinfo
12       documentation, and may not be entirely accurate or complete.   See  the
13       end of this man page for details.
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Description

16       The  mzip command is used to issue ZIP disk specific commands on Linux,
17       Solaris or HP-UX. Its syntax is:
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19       mzip [-epqrwx]
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22       Mzip allows the following command line options:
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24       e      Ejects the disk.
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26       f      Force eject even if the disk is mounted (must be given in  addi‐
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29       r      Write protect the disk.
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37       u      Temporarily  unprotect  the  disk until it is ejected.  The disk
38              becomes writable,  and  reverts  back  to  its  old  state  when
39              ejected.
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41       q      Queries the status
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43       To  remove the password, set it to one of the password-less modes -r or
44       -w: mzip will then ask you for the password, and unlock the  disk.   If
45       you  have  forgotten  the  password, you can get rid of it by low-level
46       formatting the disk (using your SCSI adapter's BIOS setup).
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48       The ZipTools disk shipped with the drive is  also  password  protected.
49       On  MS-DOS or on a Mac, this password is automatically removed once the
50       ZipTools have been installed.  From various articles posted to  Usenet,
51       I  learned  that the password for the tools disk is APlaceForYourStuff.
52       Mzip knows about this password, and tries it  first,  before  prompting
53       you for a password.  Thus mzip -w z: unlocks the tools disk.  The tools
54       disk is formatted in a special way so as to be usable both in a PC  and
55       in  a Mac.  On a PC, the Mac file system appears as a hidden file named
56       `partishn.mac'.  You may erase it to reclaim the 50 Megs of space taken
57       up by the Mac file system.
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Bugs

60       This  command  is  a  big kludge.  A proper implementation would take a
61       rework of significant parts of mtools, but unfortunately I  don't  have
62       the  time  for this right now. The main downside of this implementation
63       is that it is inefficient on  some  architectures  (several  successive
64       calls to mtools, which defeats mtools' caching).
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See Also

67       Mtools' texinfo doc
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Viewing the texi doc

70       This  manpage  has  been  automatically generated from mtools's texinfo
71       documentation. However, this process is only  approximative,  and  some
72       items,  such as crossreferences, footnotes and indices are lost in this
73       translation process.  Indeed, these items have no appropriate represen‐
74       tation  in  the manpage format.  Moreover, not all information has been
75       translated into the manpage version.  Thus I strongly advise you to use
76       the original texinfo doc.  See the end of this manpage for instructions
77       how to view the texinfo doc.
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79       *      To generate a printable copy from the texinfo doc, run the  fol‐
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90       A premade html can be found at `http://www.gnu.org/software/mtools/man
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93       *      To generate an info copy (browsable  using  emacs'  info  mode),
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100       The  texinfo doc looks most pretty when printed or as html.  Indeed, in
101       the info version certain examples are difficult  to  read  due  to  the
102       quoting conventions used in info.
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