AIX - DOS Files Management

AIX - DOS Files Management

Install the bos.dosutils fileset for the DOS-commands or install mtools (AIX Toolbox for Linux Applications).

dosdir
Lists the directory for DOS files (default device is /dev/fd0).

dosread
Copies DOS files to AIX files.
dosread -a yourfile.txt yourfile : copies a text file from a DOS diskette and replaces each carriage return, line-feed sequence with a new-line character and interprets a Ctrl-Z as the end-of-line character.
dosdir | awk '!/There are/ {print $1}'|xargs -t -i dosread {} {} : copies every DOS file from a DOS diskette.

doswrite
Copies AIX files to DOS files.
doswrite -a myfile myfile.txt : copies file myfile to a DOS diskette and replaces new-line characters with carriage return, line-feed sequences (-a). Ctrl-Z is added at the end of file.
for i in *;do;doswrite $i $i;done : copies every file in the current directory to a DOS diskette.


dosdel
Deletes DOS files.


dosformat
Formats a DOS diskette.

Mtools is a public domain collection of tools to allow Unix systems to manipulate MS-DOS files
Documentation: Mtools (HTML) or Mtools (PDF).


floppyd --> floppy daemon to run on your X server box
floppyd_installtest --> small utility to check for the presence of floppyd
mattrib --> change MS-DOS file attribute flags
mbadblocks --> tests a floppy disk, and marks the bad blocks in the FAT
mcat --> same as cat. Only usefull with floppyd.
mcd --> change MS-DOS directory
mcopy --> copy MS-DOS files to/from Unix
mdel --> delete an MS-DOS file
mdeltree --> recursively delete an MS-DOS directory
mdir--> display an MS-DOS directory
mdu--> list space occupied by directory and its contents
mformat--> add an MS-DOS filesystem to a low-level formatted floppy disk
minfo--> get information about an MS-DOS filesystem.
mlabel--> make an MS-DOS volume label
mkmanifest--> makes a list of short name equivalents
mmd--> make an MS-DOS subdirectory
mmount--> mount an MS-DOS disk
mpartition--> create an MS-DOS as a partition
mrd--> remove an MS-DOS subdirectory
mmove--> move or rename an MS-DOS file or subdirectory
mren--> rename an existing MS-DOS file
mshowfat--> shows the FAT map of a file
mtoolstest--> tests and displays the configuration
mtype--> display contents of an MS-DOS file
mzip--> zip disk specific commands