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Manpage of dskid
dskid
Section: Emulators (1)
Updated: 23 January 2008
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NAME
dskid - identify floppy or disc image file for emulated machines
SYNOPSIS
dskid
[-format FORMAT]
[-type TYPE]
[-side SIDE]
[-comp COMP]
[-retry COUNT]
DISKIMAGE
[DSKIMAGE...]
DESCRIPTION
Dskid is a utility which will identify how a disc (or image) is formatted. It
reports the required driver and various information about the disc geometry.
OPTIONS
- -type TYPE
-
Determines which driver is to be used.
-
- auto
-
Select according to the disc 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.
- -retry COUNT
-
Set the number of times to attempt to read the disc in case of error.
- -comp 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).
- -side SIDE
-
Determines which side (0 or 1) of the disc (image) is to be identified.
AUTHOR
John Elliott <jce@seasip.demon.co.uk>.
Darren Salt wrote the man pages.
Index
- NAME
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- SYNOPSIS
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- DESCRIPTION
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- OPTIONS
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- AUTHOR
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