[Info-mtools] mtools command equivalent for the DOS program SYS.COM?

[Jörg Jenderek]

There seems not to exist a mtools command equivalent for the DOS program
SYS.COM. 
Of course this work can be done by the dd program, but it is non 
comfortable and susceptible to faults. 

So it would be nice if the maintainers of the mtools could implement such a
command like "msys [SOURCE] DRIVE:".

This seems not so time consuming because the code to transfer a bootloader 
code (maybe given by -b switch) to the boot sector of a drive could be be 
taken from the "mformat" source.
It would be nice if such an mtools program and the mformat command have an 
an option to switch between different DOS bootloader styles for "PC-DOS",
"MS-DOS", "MS Win9x DOS", "mkdosfs" like the newer FreeDOS SYS version 
offers.
To emulate the DOS SYS program it also should copy a DOS Kernel (like 
IO.SYS,IBMBIO.COM, KERNEL.SYS depending on DOS types) and a command line 
interpreter (like COMMAND.COM, 4DOS.COM). This code can be based on the 
source from the mcopy and mattrib commands.
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Jörg Jenderek   email:  joerg.jen.der.ek (at) gmx.net
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