mtools: Configuration

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1 3 How to configure mtools for your environment
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1 3.1 Description
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1 This sections explains the syntax of the configurations files for
1 mtools. The configuration files are called `/etc/mtools.conf' and
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1 configuration files describe the following items:
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1    * Global configuration flags and variables
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1    * Per drive flags and variables
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· configuration file location  Where mtools looks for its configuration files
· general syntax        The layout of the configuration files
· default values        Why you don't need a configuration file in most cases
· global variables      Variables that are independent of the drive
· per drive variables   Variables that are specific to a given drive
· parsing order         Location of configuration files and parsing order
· old style configuration      Backwards compatibility
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