If Fatback is run without the -a or --auto option, it enters what is called interactive mode. In interactive mode, Fatback gives you a prompt to which you can enter commands and direct Fatback to perform more specific tasks than the automatic undelete mode.
If the input is a partitioned drive, Fatback will first display a menu of possible partitions and prompt you for which you would like to work with. Fatback will then enter the partition and you may begin exploring and recovering files!
The command interpreter is loosely modeled after the classic UNIX shell environment. The interpreter provides a prompt (‘fatback>’ by default), and mimics several UNIX shell commands such as ‘ls’, ‘cd’, ‘pwd’ , ‘cp’, and many others.
Fatback version 1.3 has the following commands:
cd
Change to a specified directory
copy
cp
Copy files out to an external file system
help
¶Display a list of commands and a brief description of each
dir
ls
List entries in a directory
pwd
¶Print the name of the current directory
stat
Display detailed information about a directory entry
chain
Display the cluster chain for a directory entry
cpchain
Copy a cluster chain out to a file
lostchains
¶Display a list of lost cluster chains in the current partition
sh
Execute a command in the outside environment
set
Set run-time variables within Fatback
done
Stop working with the current partition, or exit fatback if in single partition mode.
quit
Exit Fatback
The copy
command is synonymous with cp
, and the
dir
command is synonymous with ls
. The copy
and
dir
aliases where created to give users who primarily use DOS a
familiar interface. However, the Fatback interpreter was designed to mimic a
UNIX shell, so the cp
and ls
forms are preferred and used
by all the documentation.
It is important to note that Fatback is very case sensitive. All directory entries are in upper case, and some may have a long file name (see Long File Names) associated with it that can be mixed case. When specifying directory entries you must use either the exact uppercase name, or the long file name. To specify a long file name that contains white space, put the whole name in double quotes. For example, the Program Files directory in a windows system can be specified by either ‘PROGRA~1’ or ‘"Program Files"’.