mtools: mzip
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1 4.27 Mzip
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1 The `mzip' command is used to issue ZIP disk specific commands on
1 Linux, Solaris or HP-UX. Its syntax is:
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1 `mzip' [`-epqrwx']
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1 `Mzip' allows the following command line options:
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1 `e'
1 Ejects the disk.
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1 `f'
1 Force eject even if the disk is mounted (must be given in addition
1 to `-e').
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1 `r'
1 Write protect the disk.
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1 `w'
1 Remove write protection.
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1 `p'
1 Password write protect.
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1 `x'
1 Password protect
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1 `u'
1 Temporarily unprotect the disk until it is ejected. The disk
1 becomes writable, and reverts back to its old state when ejected.
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1 `q'
1 Queries the status
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1 To remove the password, set it to one of the password-less modes
1 `-r' or `-w': mzip will then ask you for the password, and unlock the
1 disk. If you have forgotten the password, you can get rid of it by
1 low-level formatting the disk (using your SCSI adapter's BIOS setup).
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1 The ZipTools disk shipped with the drive is also password protected.
1 On MS-DOS or on a Mac, this password is automatically removed once the
1 ZipTools have been installed. From various articles posted to Usenet, I
1 learned that the password for the tools disk is
1 `APlaceForYourStuff'(1). Mzip knows about this password, and tries it
1 first, before prompting you for a password. Thus `mzip -w z:' unlocks
1 the tools disk(2). The tools disk is formatted in a special way so as
1 to be usable both in a PC and in a Mac. On a PC, the Mac file system
1 appears as a hidden file named `partishn.mac'. You may erase it to
1 reclaim the 50 Megs of space taken up by the Mac file system.
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1 4.27.1 Bugs
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1 This command is a big kludge. A proper implementation would take a
1 rework of significant parts of mtools, but unfortunately I don't have
1 the time for this right now. The main downside of this implementation is
1 that it is inefficient on some architectures (several successive calls
1 to mtools, which defeats mtools' caching).
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1 ---------- Footnotes ----------
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1 (1) To see the articles, search for `APlaceForYourStuff' using
1 Google Groups
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1 (2) I didn't know about this yet when I bought my own Zip drive.
1 Thus I ended up reformatting my tools disk, and hence I haven't had the
1 opportunity to test the password yet. If anybody still has their tools
1 disk with the original password, could you try it out? Thanks in advance
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