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mdir(1)			    General Commands Manual		       mdir(1)

Name
       mdir - display an MSDOS directory

Note of	warning
       This  manpage  has  been	 automatically generated from mtools's texinfo
       documentation, and may not be entirely accurate or complete.   See  the
       end of this man page for	details.

Description
       The mdir	command	is used	to display an MS-DOS directory.	Its syntax is:

       mdir [-/] [-f] [-w] [-a]	[-b] msdosfile [ msdosfiles...]

       Mdir  displays  the  contents of	MS-DOS directories, or the entries for
       some MS-DOS files.

       Mdir supports the following command line	options:

       /      Recursive	output,	just like MS-DOS' -s option

       w      Wide output.  With this option, mdir prints the filenames	across
	      the page without displaying the file size	or creation date.

       a      Also list	hidden files.

       f      Fast.  Do	not try	to find	out  free  space.   On	larger	disks,
	      finding  out  the	amount of free space takes up some non trivial
	      amount of	time, as the whole FAT must be read  in	 and  scanned.
	      The  -f  flag  bypasses  this  step.  This flag is not needed on
	      FAT32 file systems, which	store the size explicitly.

       b      Concise listing. Lists each directory name or filename, one  per
	      line (including the filename extension). This switch displays no
	      heading  information  and	 no  summary. Only a newline separated
	      list of pathnames	is displayed.

       An error	occurs if a component of the path is not a directory.

See Also
       Mtools' texinfo doc

Viewing	the texi doc
       This manpage has	been automatically  generated  from  mtools's  texinfo
       documentation.  However,	 this  process is only approximative, and some
       items, such as crossreferences, footnotes and indices are lost in  this
       translation process.  Indeed, these items have no appropriate represen-
       tation  in  the manpage format.	Moreover, not all information has been
       translated into the manpage version.  Thus I strongly advise you	to use
       the original texinfo doc.  See the end of this manpage for instructions
       how to view the texinfo doc.

       *      To generate a printable copy from	the texinfo doc, run the  fol-
	      lowing commands:

		     ./configure; make dvi; dvips mtools.dvi

       *      To generate a html copy,	run:

		     ./configure; make html

       A premade html can be found at `http://www.gnu.org/software/mtools/man-
       ual/mtools.html'

       *      To  generate  an	info  copy (browsable using emacs' info	mode),
	      run:

		     ./configure; make info

       The texinfo doc looks most pretty when printed or as html.  Indeed,  in
       the  info  version  certain  examples  are difficult to read due	to the
       quoting conventions used	in info.

mtools-4.0.47			    19Jan25			       mdir(1)

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