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[9]1.TH DOSREAD 1
2.SH NAME
3dosread \- read a file from an MS-DOS diskette [IBM]
4.SH SYNOPSIS
5\fBdosread\fR [\fB\-a\fR] \fIdrive \fIfile\fR
6.br
7.de FL
8.TP
9\\fB\\$1\\fR
10\\$2
11..
12.de EX
13.TP 20
14\\fB\\$1\\fR
15# \\$2
16..
17.SH OPTIONS
18.FL "\-a" "ASCII file"
19.SH EXAMPLES
20.EX "dosread C g/adv >adv" "Read file \fIg/adv\fR from hard disk"
21.EX "dosread \-a A prog.c >x" "Read ASCII file \fIprog.c\fR from drive A"
22.SH DESCRIPTION
23.PP
24.I Dosread
25reads one \s-2MS-DOS\s+2 file and writes it on standard output.
26The file name must use slash, not backslash as a separator.
27ASCII files have the final CTRL-Z stripped, and carriage return plus
28line feed are mapped to line feed only, the usual
29\s-1MINIX 3\s-1
30convention. See \fBdosdir\fR on the use of single letter drive codes.
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