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Re: [ITP] MTools


Eugene Kotlyarov wrote:
> Hello
> 
>    I want to contribute and maintain mtools package http://mtools.linux.lu
> 
> @ mtools
> category: Utils
> requires: cygwin bash
> sdesc: "Utilities to access DOS disks in Unix"
> ldesc: "Collection of tools to allow Unix systems to manipulate MS-DOS
> files: read, write, and move around files on an MS-DOS filesystem
> (typically a floppy disk)"

It's not immediately obvious why you would want to use mtools rather than standard rm, cp, mv, etc. Could you explain?

Thanks.

Max.


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