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1 perry 1 mzip
2 !!!mzip
3 Name
4 Note of warning
5 Description
6 Bugs
7 See Also
8 Viewing the texi doc
9 ----
10 !!Name
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13 mzip - change protection mode and eject disk on Zip/Jaz drive
14 !!Note of warning
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17 This manpage has been automatically generated from mtools's
18 texinfo documentation, and may not be entirely accurate or
19 complete. See the end of this man page for
20 details.
21 !!Description
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24 The mzip command is used to issue ZIP disk specific
25 commands on Linux, Solaris or HPUX. Its syntax
26 is:
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29 mzip [[-epqrwx]
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32 Mzip allows the following command line
33 options:
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36 e
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39 Ejects the disk.
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42 f
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45 Force eject even if the disk is mounted (must be given in
46 addition to -e).
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49 r
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52 Write protect the disk.
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55 w
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58 Remove write protection.
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61 p
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64 Password write protect.
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67 x
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70 Password protect
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73 u
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76 Temporarily unprotect the disk until it is ejected. The disk
77 becomes writable, and reverts back to its old state when
78 ejected.
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81 q
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84 Queries the status
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87 To remove the password, set it to one of the passwordless
88 modes -r or -w: mzip will then ask you for
89 the password, and unlock the disk. If you have forgotten the
90 password, you can get rid of it by low-level formatting the
91 disk (using your SCSI adaptor's BIOS setup).
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2 perry 94 The !ZipTools disk shipped with the drive is also password
1 perry 95 protected. On Dos or on a Mac, this password is
2 perry 96 automatically removed once the !ZipTools have been installed.
1 perry 97 From various articles posted to Usenet, I learned that the
98 password for the tools disk is APlaceForYourStuff.
99 Mzip knows about this password, and tries it first, before
100 prompting you for a password. Thus mzip -w z:
101 unlocks the tools disk. The tools disk is formatted in a
102 special way so as to be usable both in a PC and in a Mac. On
103 a PC, the Mac filesystem appears as a hidden file named
104 `partishn.mac'. You may erase it to reclaim the 50
105 Megs of space taken up by the Mac filesystem.
106 !!Bugs
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109 This command is a big kludge. A proper implementation would
110 take a rework of significant parts of mtools, but
111 unfortunately I don't have the time for this right now. The
112 main downside of this implementation is that it is
113 inefficient on some architectures (several successive calls
114 to mtools, which defeats mtools' caching).
115 !!See Also
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118 Mtools' texinfo doc
119 !!Viewing the texi doc
120
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122 This manpage has been automatically generated from mtools's
123 texinfo documentation. However, this process is only
124 approximative, and some items, such as crossreferences,
125 footnotes and indices are lost in this translation process.
126 Indeed, these items have no appropriate representation in
127 the manpage format. Moreover, not all information has been
128 translated into the manpage version. Thus I strongly advise
129 you to use the original texinfo doc. See the end of this
130 manpage for instructions how to view the texinfo
131 doc.
132
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134 *
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137 To generate a printable copy from the texinfo doc, run the
138 following commands:
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141 __ ./configure; make dvi; dvips mtools.dvi
142 __
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145 *
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148 To generate a html copy, run:
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151 __ ./configure; make html
152 __A premade html can be found at: `http://mtools.linux.lu' and also at: `http://www.tux.org/pub/knaff/mtools'
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155 *
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158 To generate an info copy (browsable using emacs' info mode),
159 run:
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162 __ ./configure; make info
163 __
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166 The texinfo doc looks most pretty when printed or as html.
167 Indeed, in the info version certain examples are difficult
168 to read due to the quoting conventions used in
169 info.
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