Mtools is great - get rid of doscp! (location)

[Dave L. Smith]

Since several people have inquired about Mtools' location,
I am re-posting Emmet's article:
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Mtools is a public domain collection of programs to allow Unix systems
to read, write and manipulate files on an MSDOS filesystem (typically a
diskette).

The following MSDOS commands are emulated:

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 an MSDOS filesystem to a low level format
mlabel		LABEL		make an MSDOS volume label
mmd		MD/MKDIR	make an MSDOS sub directory
mrd		RD/RMDIR	remove an MSDOS sub directory
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

The current version of Mtools is v2.0.4 (meaning version 2.0 at patch
level 4)

Mtools v2.0 was posted to the unix-pc.sources news group (and mailed to
Rich Salz, the moderator of comp.sources.unix) on the 17th of September
1990.  Since then, patches 1-4 have been posted to unix-pc.sources,
comp.sources.bugs, and emailed to Rich Salz.

The "always current" version of Mtools and all the patches are available
via anonymous ftp from cerl.cecer.army.mil (129.229.1.101).  I've also
placed the files in the ~ftp/tmp/mtools directory on uunet.uu.net.

Emmet P. Gray				US Army, HQ III Corps & Fort Hood
...!uunet!uiucuxc!fthood!egray		Attn: AFZF-DE-ENV
fthood!egray at uxc.cso.uiuc.edu		Directorate of Engineering & Housing
					Environmental Management Office
					Fort Hood, TX 76544-5057

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Dave Smith
dls at genco.bungi.com