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Changing OSX Terminal Man Page Colors

For a long time, when I type man anything on my Mac, both the manpage header fonts and the background was black, so I had to use my mouse to highlight the manpage output to read it. It was really annoying.

The problem was the same both locally or using the terminal and going ssh somewhere.

Finally! I fixed it, thanks to this article in MacWorld !!

Set Terminal color via drag and drop | Utilities | Mac OS X Hints | Macworld

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mzip(1) General Commands Manual mzip(1)

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 accurate 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 HP-UX. 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 password-less modes -r or -w: mzip will then ask you for the password, 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 adapter's BIOS setup).

The ZipTools disk shipped with the drive is also password protected. On MS-DOS or on a Mac, this password is automatically removed once
the ZipTools have been installed. From various articles posted to Usenet, I learned that the password for the tools disk is APlaceForY-
ourStuff. 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 file system appears as
a hidden file named `partishn.mac'. You may erase it to reclaim the 50 Megs of space taken up by the Mac file system.

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).

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