dsktrans(1)

NAME
dsktrans - floppy or image file formatter for emulated machines

SYNOPSIS
dsktrans INPUT-IMAGE OUTPUT-IMAGE [-itype TYPE] [-otype TYPE] [-iside SIDE] [-oside SIDE] [-icomp COMP] [-ocomp COMP] [-md3] [-logical]

DESCRIPTION
Dsktrans copies floppy disks or images, optionally converting image types.

OPTIONS

-itype TYPE
    Determines which driver is to be used to read from the source disk.

    auto
        Select according to the disk image file. This is the default.

    dsk Use the DSK (CPCEmu format) image driver.

    edsk
        Use the extended version of the DSK format.

    floppy
        Use the floppy driver.

    myz80
        Use the hard disk (MYZ80 format) image driver. (This format cannot be autodetected.)

    cfi Use the CFI (DOS fdcopy format) image driver. (This format cannot be autodetected.)

    raw Use the raw driver.

-otype TYPE
    Determines which driver is to be used to write to the destination disk. The drivers are as for -itype.

-icomp COMP
    Select the compression method used on the source disc image file (has no effect when reading a floppy disc).

    auto
        Detect from the first few bytes of the file. This is the default.

    sq  Huffman coded (SQ / USQ).

    gz  Gzipped (gzip / gunzip).

    bz2 Burrows-Wheeler compressed (bzip2 / bunzip2).

-ocomp COMP
    Select the compression to be used on output. Compression methods are as for -icomp, except that bz2 cannot be used.

-iside SIDE
    Determines which side (0 or 1) of the source disk is to be read from. -oside SIDE Determines which side (0 or 1) of the destination disk is to be written to.

-md3
    Defeat MicroDesign 3 copy protection. Note that this does not make dsktrans a circumvention device, since the authors of MicroDesign have placed it in the public domain and given permission for the copy-protection to be reverse engineered.

-logical
    Rearrange the tracks in the logical order. This option is useful when the output image type is raw and you're reading a disk with a non-IBM track layout, such as 144FEAT 1440K or ADFS 'L'.

BUGS
The parameter order is too rigid.

AUTHOR
John Elliott <jce@seasip.demon.co.uk>.

Darren Salt wrote the man pages.