1mcat(1)                     General Commands Manual                    mcat(1)
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Name

6       mcat - dump raw disk image
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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
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Description

16       The  mcat  command  is used to copy an entire disk image from or to the
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21       Mcat performs the same task as the Unix cat  command.  It  is  included
22       into  the mtools package, since cat cannot access remote floppy devices
23       offered by the mtools floppy daemon.  Now it is possible to create boot
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26       The default operation is reading. The output is written to stdout.
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28       If  the  -w option is specified, mcat reads a disk-image from stdin and
29       writes it to the given device.  Use this carefully! Because of the low-
30       level  nature of this command, it will happily destroy any data written
31       before on the disk without warning!
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See Also

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Viewing the texi doc

37       This manpage has been automatically  generated  from  mtools's  texinfo
38       documentation.  However,  this  process is only approximative, and some
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40       translation process.  Indeed, these items have no appropriate represen‐
41       tation in the manpage format.  Moreover, not all information  has  been
42       translated into the manpage version.  Thus I strongly advise you to use
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68       the  info  version  certain  examples  are difficult to read due to the
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71mtools-4.0.43                       21Mar23                            mcat(1)