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1 | .TH MWRITE 1 local |
| 2 | .SH NAME | |
| 3 | mwrite \- low level write (copy) a Unix file to MSDOS | |
| 4 | .SH SYNOPSIS | |
| 5 | .B mwrite | |
| 6 | [ | |
| 7 | .B -tnvm | |
| 8 | ] unixfile msdosfile | |
| 9 | .PP | |
| 10 | .B mwrite | |
| 11 | [ | |
| 12 | .B -tnvm | |
| 13 | ] unixfile [ unixfiles... ] msdosdirectory | |
| 14 | .SH DESCRIPTION | |
| 15 | In the first form, | |
| 16 | .I mwrite | |
| 17 | copies the specified Unix file to the named MSDOS file. The second form | |
| 18 | of the command copies multiple Unix files to the named MSDOS directory. | |
| 19 | .PP | |
| 20 | .I Mwrite | |
| 21 | will allow the following command line options: | |
| 22 | .TP | |
| 23 | .B t | |
| 24 | Text file transfer. | |
| 25 | .I Mwrite | |
| 26 | will translate incoming line feeds to carriage return/line feeds. | |
| 27 | .TP | |
| 28 | .B n | |
| 29 | No warning. | |
| 30 | .I Mwrite | |
| 31 | will not warn the user when overwriting an existing file. | |
| 32 | .TP | |
| 33 | .B v | |
| 34 | Verbose mode. Display the new filename if the Unix filename requires | |
| 35 | conversion. | |
| 36 | .TP | |
| 37 | .B m | |
| 38 | Preserve the file modification times. | |
| 39 | .PP | |
| 40 | If the target file already exists, and the | |
| 41 | .I -n | |
| 42 | option is not in effect, | |
| 43 | .I mwrite | |
| 44 | asks whether or not to overwrite the file. | |
| 45 | .PP | |
| 46 | Reasonable care is taken to create a valid MSDOS filename. If an | |
| 47 | invalid name is specified, | |
| 48 | .I mwrite | |
| 49 | will change the name (and display the new name if the verbose mode is | |
| 50 | set). | |
| 51 | .PP | |
| 52 | MSDOS subdirectory names are are supported with either the '/' or '\e\' | |
| 53 | separator. The use of the '\e\' separator or wildcards will require the | |
| 54 | names to be enclosed in quotes to protect them from the shell. | |
| 55 | .PP | |
| 56 | The | |
| 57 | .I mcd | |
| 58 | command may be used to establish the device and the current working | |
| 59 | directory (relative to MSDOS), otherwise the default is A:/. | |
| 60 | .SH SEE ALSO | |
| 61 | mcd(1), mcopy(1), mread(1) | |
| 62 | .SH BUGS | |
| 63 | Unlike MSDOS, the destination directory may | |
| 64 | .B not | |
| 65 | be omitted. |