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MS/DOS commands and Windows Commands

UNIX COMMANDS

useless information

• irc names you can join in chat groups in irc or interactive relay chat
• names of all the newsgroups supported by primenet alt., comp., ...
• cntl/z - suspend the current command and return to the shell
  fg - can be used to resume the process at the terminal
  or if several processes have been stopped then
  fg %number - ie fg %3 will resume the 3rd process
  bg - can be used to resume the process in the background
  kill pid - can be used to terminate the process
  jobs - will show all the processes stopped with cntl/z
• . - run the script in the current shell
  ie:don't fork and create a new process to run the script in
  . .profile # run the script .profile in the current shell
  # this allows .profile to update our shell variables

commands to modify and create user accounts - usually run by superuser root

Sometimes these commands are not in your default path and you will have to execute them by going to the directory the are stored in which is usually

/usr/sbin

• useradd - add a UNIX userid
• userdel - delete a UNIX userid
• usermod - modify a UNIX userid
• groupadd - add a UNIX groupid
• groupdel - delete a UNIX groupid
• groupmod - modify a UNIX groupid

unix commands to move data to and from ms/dos floppy disks

They usually come in a a package called MTOOLS or MCOMMANDS. All this documentation came from a SUN box.

And of course they are usually free.

They run on everything from those LINUX boxes, to those over priced SUN boxes, HP, AIX, and all the other standard flavors of UNIX.1

And their not limited to floppy disks. One site I worked at had MTOOLS set up so you could treat your files on the IBM MAINFRAME running MVS as UNIX files. Such as:

mcat /sys1.linklib

• mtools - mattrib change attributes of files on ms/dos floppy disks - like unix chmod command or ms/dos attrib command -
• mtools - mbadblocks - finds bad blocks on a ms/dos floppy disk and marks them as bad
• mtools - mcat - list, print, or dump the contents of file on ms/dos floppy disk. sometimes mtype is used instead. mcat a:msdos.file
• mtools - mcd - cd to a directory on a ms/dos floppy disk
• mtools - mcopy - copy a unix file to a ms/dos floppy disk, or , copy a file on a ms/dos floppy disk to unix. mcopy unixfile a:dos_disk.fil

  for example:

  mcopy a:autoexec.bat unix_autoexec_script
     or
  mcopy unix_script a:dosscript.bat 
  

• mtools - mdel - delete files on ms/dos floppy disk
• mtools - mdeltree -
• mtools - mdir - list files on a ms/dos floppy disk. like dos dir command, and unix ls command, but for ms/floppy disks on a unix machine.

  for example:

  $ mdir a:
  
   Volume in drive A has no label
  Directory for A:/
  
  addsub              46 01-02-2001   9:23  addsub
  autoexec bat       610 01-02-2001   9:23  autoexec.bat
  backup             635 01-02-2001   9:23  backup
  dumpfile          5889 01-02-2001   9:23  dumpfile
  hours              395 01-02-2001   9:23  hours
  INDEX~1  HTM     30626 01-02-2001   9:23  index.html
  krud               448 01-02-2001   9:23  krud
  krud     pl         84 01-02-2001   9:23  krud.pl
  krud2              786 01-02-2001   9:23  krud2
  mi                  25 01-02-2001   9:23  mi
  notes            37797 01-02-2001   9:23  notes
  notes    cis       214 01-02-2001   9:23  notes.cis
  quit     txt      1307 01-02-2001   9:23  quit.txt
         16 files              90 454 bytes
                            1 362 432 bytes free
  
  $
  

• mtools - mdu - list blocks used by a ms/dos directory or file. It looks like it lists SECTORS use not BYTES used.

  mdir lists the number 2486 for file size while

  mdu lists the number 5 for file size

  Which in this case implies that a block is 512 bytes.

  $ mdir a:man-mtype.html
  
  MAN-MT~3 HTM      2486 01-02-2001   8:59  man-mtype.html
  
  $ mdu a:man-mtype.html
  
  A:/man-mtype.html 5
  

• mtools - mformat format a ms/dos floppy disk on a UNIX machine -
• mtools - mkmanifest -
• mtools - mlabel Writes a label to a ms/dos floppy disk file -
• mtools - mmd - msdos or unix mkdir command to create a directory on a ms/dos floppy disk, make a directory on a ms/dos floppy disk
• mtools - mmount -
• mtools - mmove more or rename a md/dos file (see mmove, mren ) -
• mtools - mrd - ms/dos rmdir command is mrd in mtools. remove a directory on a ms/dos floppy disk.
• mtools - mread -
• mtools - mren - more or rename a md/dos file (see mmove, mren )
• mtools - mtoolstest -
• mtools - mtype - list, print, or dump the contents of file on ms/dos floppy disk. sometimes mcat is used instead.
• mtools - the a: and b: commands for unix

standard unix commands

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