NAME
DOSIF — DOS Interchange Format description
DESCRIPTION
DOSIF
(DOS
Interchange Format) is the name given to the media format used by the
DOS
operating system.
This format is based upon that used in
IBM PC
and
PC AT
and
HP
Vectra systems.
The
DOS
utilities described in Section 1 (referred to hereafter as
dos*(1))
are provided for reading data from and writing data to
DOSIF
volumes.
Use these utilities to retrieve information from a
DOSIF
volume.
The
dos*(1)
utilities are the only
HP-UX
commands that can interact directly with the contents of a
DOSIF
volume.
The only other way to interact with the contents of a
DOSIF
volume is to use an
HP-UX DOS
emulation or coprocessor facility such as SoftPC
or the
DOS
Coprocessor.
mount
cannot be used on a
DOSIF
volume because the operating system does not recognize it (see
mount(1M)).
When constructing file names for
dos*(1)
commands, start with the
HP-UX
path name of the
DOSIF
volume, then add a colon
(:)
followed by the file name:
or
Note:
This file naming convention is suitable for use only in arguments to the
dos*(1)
utilities.
It does not constitute a legal path name for any other use in
HP-UX
applications.
Metacharacters
*,
?,
and
[ ... ]
can be used when specifying both
HP-UX
and
DOS
file names. These must be quoted when specifying a
DOS
file name, because file name expansion must be performed by the
DOS
utilities, not by the shell. The
dos*(1)
utilities expand file names as described
in
regexp(5)
under
PATTERN MATCHING NOTATION.
By convention, if the
HP-UX
device name and a trailing colon are specified,
but no file or directory name is provided (for example,
/dev/rdsk/c1t1d0:),
the root
(/)
of the
DOS
file system is assumed.
EXAMPLES
Specify
DOSIF
file
/dos/ivy
accessed through
HP-UX
special file
/dev/rdsk/c1t1d0:
/dev/rdsk/c1t1d0:/dos/ivy
Specify
DOSIF
file
/math
accessed through the
DOS
volume stored as
HP-UX
file
/home/mydir/driveC:
