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Name

      mzip - change protection mode and eject disk on Zip/Jaz drive

Note of warning

      This  manpage has been automatically generated from mtools's texinfo documentation, and may not be entirely accu-
      rate or complete.  See the end of this man page for details.

Description

      The mzip command is used to issue ZIP disk specific commands on Linux, Solaris or HPUX. Its syntax is:
 
      mzip [-epqrwx]
 
      Mzip allows the following command line options:
 
      e      Ejects the disk.
 
      f      Force eject even if the disk is mounted (must be given in addition to -e).
 
      r      Write protect the disk.
 
      w      Remove write protection.
 
      p      Password write protect.
 
      x      Password protect
 
      u      Temporarily unprotect the disk until it is ejected.  The disk becomes writable, and reverts  back  to  its
             old state when ejected.
 
      q      Queries the status
 
      To  remove  the  password, set it to one of the passwordless modes -r or -w: mzip will then ask you for the pass-
      word, and unlock the disk.  If you have forgotten the password, you can get rid of it by low-level formatting the
      disk (using your SCSI adaptor's BIOS setup).
 
      The  ZipTools disk shipped with the drive is also password protected.  On Dos or on a Mac, this password is auto-
      matically removed once the ZipTools have been installed.  From various articles posted to Usenet, I learned  that
      the  password  for  the  tools  disk  is APlaceForYourStuff.  Mzip knows about this password, and tries it first,
      before prompting you for a password.  Thus mzip -w z: unlocks the tools disk.  The tools disk is formatted  in  a
      special  way  so as to be usable both in a PC and in a Mac.  On a PC, the Mac filesystem appears as a hidden file
      named `partishn.mac'.  You may erase it to reclaim the 50 Megs of space taken up by the Mac filesystem.

Bugs

      This command is a big kludge.  A proper implementation would take a rework of significant parts  of  mtools,  but
      unfortunately  I  don't  have the time for this right now. The main downside of this implementation is that it is
      inefficient on some architectures (several successive calls to mtools, which defeats mtools' caching).

See Also

      Mtools' texinfo doc

Viewing the texi doc

      This manpage has been automatically generated from mtools's texinfo documentation. However, this process is  only
      approximative,  and  some items, such as crossreferences, footnotes and indices are lost in this translation pro-
      cess.  Indeed, these items have no appropriate representation in the manpage format.  Moreover, not all  informa-
      tion  has  been translated into the manpage version.  Thus I strongly advise you to use the original texinfo doc.
      See the end of this manpage for instructions how to view the texinfo doc.
 
      *      To generate a printable copy from the texinfo doc, run the following commands:
 
                    ./configure; make dvi; dvips mtools.dvi

      *      To generate a html copy,  run:
 
                    ./configure; make html
 
             A    premade    html    can     be     found     at:     `http://mtools.linux.lu'     and     also     at:
             `http://www.tux.org/pub/knaff/mtools'
 
      *      To generate an info copy (browsable using emacs' info mode), run:
 
                    ./configure; make info

      The texinfo doc looks most pretty when printed or as html.  Indeed, in the info version certain examples are dif-
      ficult to read due to the quoting conventions used in info.

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