Mtools

Accessing MS-DOS disks

Edition pre-3.9.8, for Mtools version pre-3.9.8

May 2001

• Introduction
• Warning, beware of the cookie monster!
• Where to get mtools
• Common features of all mtools commands
  • Options and filenames
  • Drive letters
  • Current working directory
  • VFAT-style long file names
  • Name clashes
  • Case sensitivity of the VFAT filesystem
  • high capacity formats
    • More sectors
    • Bigger sectors
    • 2m
    • XDF
  • Exit codes
  • Bugs
• How to configure mtools for your environment
  • Description
  • Location of the configuration files
    • General configuration file syntax
  • Default values
  • Global variables
  • Per drive flags and variables
    • General information
    • Disk Geometry Configuration
    • Open Flags
  • General Purpose Drive Variables
  • General Purpose Drive Flags
    • Supplying multiple descriptions for a drive
  • Character set translation tables
    • Why character set translation tables are needed
    • Configuration using Country
    • Configuration using explicit translation tables
    • Unicode characters greater than 256
  • Location of configuration files and parsing order
  • Backwards compatibility with old configuration file syntax
• Command list
  • Floppyd
    • Authentication
    • Command line options
    • Connecting to floppyd
    • Examples:
  • Floppyd_installtest
  • Mattrib
  • Mbadblocks
    • Bugs
  • Mcat
  • Mcd
  • Mcopy
    • Bugs
  • Mdel
  • Mdeltree
  • Mdir
  • Mdu
  • Mformat
  • Mkmanifest
    • Example
    • Bugs
  • Minfo
  • Mlabel
  • Mmd
  • Mmount
  • Mmove
  • Mpartition
  • Mrd
  • Mren
  • Mshowfat
  • Mtoolstest
  • Mtype
  • Mzip
    • Bugs
• Architecture specific compilation flags
• Porting mtools to architectures which are not supported yet
• Command Index
• Variable index
• Concept index

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