Using disks with DOS format
You can read DOS floppies from any Athena workstation.
If you have BLANK disks, you must first format them. This can be done
either on your own IBM PC home computer, or on any Athena workstation.
For information on how to do this, consult the stock answer titled
"How to FORMAT FLOPPIES on Athena" under the WORKSTATIONS topic.
Once the floppy is formatted, you can use the mtools suite of commands to
manipulate files on the disk. You will need to type:
athena% add mtools
Once at your athena prompt before you can access the commands. A brief
summary is presented below.
Mtool MSDOS
name equivalent Description
mattrib ATTRIB change MSDOS file attribute flags
mcd CD change MSDOS directory
mcopy COPY copy MSDOS files to/from Unix
mdel DEL/ERASE delete an MSDOS file
mdir DIR display an MSDOS directory
mformat FORMAT add MSDOS filesystem to a low-level format
mlabel LABEL make an MSDOS volume label.
mmd MD/MKDIR make an MSDOS subdirectory
mrd RD/RMDIR remove an MSDOS subdirectory
mread COPY low level read (copy) an MSDOS file to Unix
mren REN/RENAME rename an existing MSDOS file
mtype TYPE display contents of an MSDOS file
mwrite COPY low level write (copy) a Unix file to MSDOS
You should be able to just close your eyes and pretend you're on an
MSDOS system. Everything should work the same... except for the added
'm' at the beginning of each command.
For example, to copy a file from the floppy to the current directory,
you would type:
athena% mcopy a:filename filename
To write a file to the floppy, you would type:
athena% mcopy filename a:filename
For more information on the mtools suite of floppy utilities, type:
athena% add mtools
athena% man mtools
The pattern matching routine more closely resembles Unix than MSDOS. For
example, "*" matches all MSDOS files in lieu of "*.*".
The use of wildcards (or the 'separator) will require the names to be
enclosed in quotes to protect them from the shell. For example:
RIGHT: mcopy "a:*.c" .
will copy all files on the A: disk with the extension .C to the current
Unix directory.
WRONG: mcopy a:*.c .
will cause the shell to expand a:*.c in the current Unix directory
(which is probably not what you wanted) then copy that list of files (if
there were any) from A: to the current Unix directory.
RIGHT: mcopy *.c a:
will copy all files with the extension .c in the current Unix directory
to the A: drive. (This time you *want* the shell the expand the *.c).
(last updated on Aug 22, 1997)
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