Re: [386bsd] Mtools documentation

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From: & Murphey
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 06:38

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>>>>> In article <C0pwxL.7Ls@watdragon.uwaterloo.ca>, yqian@yoho.uwaterloo.ca (Yuemin Qian~{G.T>Cq~}) writes:

Yuemin> Looking at /usr/local/bin in 386bsd, there are a bounch of tools
Yuemin> such as 'mread', 'mwrite', 'mdir', 'mdel' as those commands in MS-DOS.
Yuemin> I tried some of these commands, they seemed not work for me except the
Yuemin> ones 'mread' and 'utree'.

Some people have reported that simply recompiling the sources in
/usr/src/othersrc/public/mtools-2.0.5/mtools-2.0.5 fixes problems with
mdir, etc.  This is part of the 'etc' distribution.

Yuemin> The directory /usr/local/man is empty. So there are no man pages for
Yuemin> these commands.

Yuemin> Can someone tell me how to use these commands or where to find the
Yuemin> man pages for these commands?

They are in /usr/src/othersrc/public/mtools-2.0.5/man/cat1.  Rich

Yuemin> Thanks in advance.

Yuemin> -Yuemin

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Subject: Re: [386bsd] Mtools documentation
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