1mcopy(1)                    General Commands Manual                   mcopy(1)
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Name

6       mcopy - copy MSDOS files to/from Unix
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Note of warning

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12       documentation, and may not be entirely accurate or complete.   See  the
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Description

16       The  mcopy  command  is  used to copy MS-DOS files to and from Unix. It
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19          mcopy [-bspanvmQT] [-D clash_option] sourcefile targetfile
20          mcopy [-bspanvmQT] [-D clash_option] sourcefile [ sourcefiles... ] targetdirectory
21          mcopy [-tnvm] MSDOSsourcefile
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25       Mcopy copies the specified file to the named file, or  copies  multiple
26       files  to the named directory.  The source and target can be either MS-
27       DOS or Unix files.
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29       The use of a drive letter designation on the MS-DOS files, 'a:' for ex‐
30       ample,  determines the direction of the transfer.  A missing drive des‐
31       ignation implies a Unix file whose path starts in  the  current  direc‐
32       tory.  If a source drive letter is specified with no attached file name
33       (e.g. mcopy a: .), all files are copied from that drive.
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35       If only a single, MS-DOS source  parameter  is  provided  (e.g.  "mcopy
36       a:foo.exe"),  an  implied destination of the current directory (`.') is
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39       A filename of `-' means standard input or standard output, depending on
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44       t      Text  file  transfer.   Mcopy  translates  incoming carriage re‐
45              turn/line feeds to line feeds when copying from MS-DOS to  Unix,
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48       b      Batch mode. Optimized for huge recursive copies, but less secure
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62              fers  from -a in the ASCII also translates incoming PC-8 charac‐
63              ters to ISO-8859-1 equivalents as far as possible.  When reading
64              DOS  files,  untranslatable characters are replaced by '#'; when
65              writing DOS files, untranslatable  characters  are  replaced  by
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69              the user when overwriting an existing Unix file. If  the  target
70              file  already  exists, and the -n option is not in effect, mcopy
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Bugs

80       Unlike MS-DOS, the '+' operator (append) from MS-DOS is not  supported.
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83          mtype a:file1 a:file2 a:file3 >unixfile
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See Also

89       Mtools' texinfo doc
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Viewing the texi doc

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