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Re: [ITP] MTools
- From: "Max Bowsher" <maxb at ukf dot net>
- To: <ekot at narod dot ru>,<cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 23:16:51 +0100
- Subject: Re: [ITP] MTools
- References: <40A3D67D.5060008@narod.ru>
Eugene Kotlyarov wrote:
> Hello
>
> I want to contribute and maintain mtools package http://mtools.linux.lu
>
> @ mtools
> category: Utils
> requires: cygwin bash
> sdesc: "Utilities to access DOS disks in Unix"
> ldesc: "Collection of tools to allow Unix systems to manipulate MS-DOS
> files: read, write, and move around files on an MS-DOS filesystem
> (typically a floppy disk)"
It's not immediately obvious why you would want to use mtools rather than standard rm, cp, mv, etc. Could you explain?
Thanks.
Max.