dosread(1) — AIX PS/2 1.2.1



DOSREAD(1,C)                AIX Commands Reference                 DOSREAD(1,C)



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dosread



PURPOSE

Copies a DOS file.

SYNTAX


           +--------+   +- -D/dev/fdO -+           +---------+
dosread ---| +----+ |---|              |-- file1 --|         |---|
           +-| -a |-+   +- -D device --+           +- file2 -+
            ^| -v ||
            |+----+|
            +------+


Note:  This command does not have MBCS support.

DESCRIPTION

The dosread command copies the specified DOS file1 to standard output or to the
specified AIX file2 (by default the root directory).  Unless otherwise
specified, the dosread command copies as many bytes as are specified in the
directory entry for file1.  This means, in particular, that copying directories
does not work, since directories by convention have a record size of 0.

File-naming conventions are the same as DOS, with one exception:  the dosread
command replaces the \ (backslash) character used to separate components of a
DOS path name with a / (slash) character because the backslash can have special
meaning to the AIX Operating System.  The dosread command converts lowercase
characters in the file1 name to uppercase before it checks the disk.  Because
all file names are assumed to be full (not relative) path names, you need not
add the initial / (slash).

Notes:

  1. Pattern-matching characters ("*" and "?") are not treated in a special way
    by this command (although they are by the shell).  If, for example, you do
    not specify a file-name extension, the file name is matched as if you
    specified a blank extension.

  2. This command must be named dosread.

FLAGS

-a           Replaces the sequence CRLF (carriage return-line feed) with NL
             (new-line character) and interprets a Ctrl-Z (ASCII SUB) as the
             end-of-file character.



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-D device    Specifies the name of the DOS device or file system.  The default
             device is /dev/fd0.  This device must have the DOS-disk format.

-v           Writes information to the standard output about the format of the
             disk.  Use this flag to verify that a device or file system is a
             DOS disk.

EXAMPLES

  1. To copy a text file from a DOS diskette to the AIX file system:

      dosread -a chap1.doc chap1

    This command copies the DOS text file "\CHAP1.DOC" on /dev/fd0 to the AIX
    file "chap1" in the current directory.

  2. To copy a binary file from a fixed-disk DOS file system to the AIX file
    system:

      dosread -D/dev/hd1 /survey/test.dta /u/fran/testdata

    This command copies the DOS data file "\SURVEY\TEST.DTA" on /dev/hd1 to the
    AIX file "/u/fran/testdata".

FILES

/dev/fd0    Device name for diskette drive.

RELATED INFORMATION

See the following commands:  "dosdel,"  "dosdir," and  "doswrite."























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