HPUX dosif[4]

 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, 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 SoftPC 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:



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 dosif(4)                                                           dosif(4)





           /users/mydir/driveC:/math

 SEE ALSO
      dos2ux(1), doschmod(1), doscp(1), dosdf(1), dosls(1), dosmkdir(1),
      dosrm(1).

















































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