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<H1>dosread(1)</H1>
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<H2>NAME</H2><PRE>
dosread - read a file from an MS-DOS diskette [IBM]
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<H2>SYNOPSIS</H2><PRE>
<STRONG>dosread</STRONG> [<STRONG>-a</STRONG>] <EM>drive</EM> <EM>file</EM>
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<H2>OPTIONS</H2><PRE>
<STRONG>-a</STRONG> ASCII file
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<H2>EXAMPLES</H2><PRE>
<STRONG>dosread</STRONG> <STRONG>C</STRONG> <STRONG>g/adv</STRONG> <STRONG>&gt;adv</STRONG>
# Read file <EM>g</EM>/<EM>adv</EM> from hard disk
<STRONG>dosread</STRONG> <STRONG>-a</STRONG> <STRONG>A</STRONG> <STRONG>prog.c</STRONG> <STRONG>&gt;x</STRONG>
# Read ASCII file <EM>prog</EM>.<EM>c</EM> from drive A
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<H2>DESCRIPTION</H2><PRE>
<EM>Dosread</EM> reads one MS-DOS file and writes it on standard output. The file
name must use slash, not backslash as a separator. ASCII files have the
final CTRL-Z stripped, and carriage return plus line feed are mapped to
line feed only, the usual MINIX convention. See <STRONG>dosdir</STRONG> on the use of
single letter drive codes.
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