1mzip(1) General Commands Manual mzip(1)
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6 mzip - change protection mode and eject disk on Zip/Jaz drive
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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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16 The mzip command is used to issue ZIP disk specific commands on Linux,
17 Solaris or HP-UX. Its syntax is:
18 mzip [-epqrwx]
20 Mzip allows the following command line options:
23 e Ejects the disk.
25 f Force eject even if the disk is mounted (must be given in addi‐
27 tion to -e).
28 r Write protect the disk.
30 w Remove write protection.
32 p Password write protect.
34 x Password protect
36 u Temporarily unprotect the disk until it is ejected. The disk
38 becomes writable, and reverts back to its old state when
39 ejected.
40 q Queries the status
42 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).
47 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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60 This command is a big kludge. A proper implementation would take a re‐
61 work of significant parts of mtools, but unfortunately I don't have the
62 time for this right now. The main downside of this implementation is
63 that it is inefficient on some architectures (several successive calls
64 to mtools, which defeats mtools' caching).
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67 Mtools' texinfo doc
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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.
78 * To generate a printable copy from the texinfo doc, run the fol‐
80 lowing commands:
81 ./configure; make dvi; dvips mtools.dvi
83 * To generate a html copy, run:
87 ./configure; make html
89 A premade html can be found at `http://www.gnu.org/software/mtools/man‐
91 ual/mtools.html'
92 * To generate an info copy (browsable using emacs' info mode),
94 run:
95 ./configure; make info
97 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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