dosif(4)
NAME
DOSIF − DOS Interchange Format description
DESCRIPTION
DOSIF ( DOS Interchange Format) is the name given to the media format used by the DOS operating system. This format is based upon that used in IBM PC and PC AT, HP Vectra, and HP 150 systems.
The DOS utilities described in Section 1 (referred to hereafter as dos∗(1)) are provided for reading data from and writing data to DOSIF volumes. Use these utilities to retrieve information from a DOSIF volume.
The dos∗(1) utilities are the only HP-UX commands that can interact directly with the contents of a DOSIF volume. The only other way to interact with the contents of a DOSIF volume is to use an HP-UX DOS emulation or coprocessor facility such as Soft PC or the DOS Coprocessor. mount cannot be used on a DOSIF volume because the operating system does not recognize it (see mount(1)).
When constructing file names for dos∗(1) commands, start with the HP-UX path name of the DOSIF volume, then add a colon (:) followed by the file name:
device_file:file
or
path_name:file
Note: This file naming convention is suitable for use only in arguments to the dos∗(1) utilities. It does not constitute a legal path name for any other use in HP-UX applications.
Note: Shell metacharacters (*, ?, and [...]) can be used to name HP-UX files, but cannot be used when specifying a DOS file name, because file name expansion is done by the shell and the dos∗(1) utilities do not recognize metacharacters.
By convention, if the HP-UX device name and a trailing colon are specified, but no file or directory name is provided (for example, /dev/rfd.0:), the root (/) of the DOS file system is assumed.
EXAMPLES
Specify DOSIF file /dos/ivy accessed through HP-UX special file /dev/rfd9127:
/dev/rfd9127:/dos/ivy
Specify DOSIF file /math accessed through the DOS volume stored as HP-UX file /users/mydir/driveC:
/users/mydir/driveC:/math
SEE ALSO
dos2ux(1), doschmod(1), doscp(1), dosdf(1), dosls(1), dosmkdir(1), dosrm(1).
Hewlett-Packard Company — HP-UX Release 9.10: April 1995