HP-UX Reference (11i v1 05/09) - 4 File Formats (vol 8)

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dosif(4) 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 and HP Vectra 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 emula-
tion 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(1M)).
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.
Metacharacters *,
?, and [ ... ] can be used when specifying both HP-UX and DOS file names. These must
be quoted when specifying a
DOS file name, because file name expansion must be performed by the
DOS util-
ities, not by the shell. The dos∗(1) utilities expand file names as described in regexp(5) under PATTERN
MATCHING NOTATION.
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/rdsk/c1t1d0:
), the root (/) of the DOS file system is assumed.
EXAMPLES
Specify
DOSIF file /dos/ivy accessed through HP-UX special file /dev/rdsk/c1t1d0
:
/dev/rdsk/c1t1d0:/dos/ivy
Specify DOSIF file /math accessed through the DOS volume stored as HP-UX file
/home/mydir/driveC
:
/home/mydir/driveC:/math
SEE ALSO
dos2ux(1), doschmod(1), doscp(1), dosdf(1), dosls(1), dosmkdir(1), dosrm(1).
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