mcat - dump raw disk image


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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 lowlevel nature of this command,
       it will happily destroy any data  written  before  on  the
       disk without warning!


See Also

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