1dskscan(1)                         Emulators                        dskscan(1)
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NAME

6       dskscan - Scan a floppy disc for sector headers
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SYNOPSIS

9       dskscan  [-type TYPE] [-side SIDE] [-comp COMP] [-dstep] [-retry COUNT]
10       [-format FMT] [-first CYLINDER] [-last CYLINDER] [-xml] DISKIMAGE

DESCRIPTION

12       Dskscan scans a floppy disc (or a disc image)  and  prints  any  sector
13       headers that it finds. It does not attempt to read the sectors.
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OPTIONS

16       -type TYPE
17              Determines which driver is to be used to read from the disc.
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19              auto    Select  according  to  the  disc image file. This is the
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22              dsk     Use the DSK (CPCEmu format) image driver.
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24              edsk    Use the extended version of the DSK format.
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26              floppy  Use the floppy driver.
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28              myz80   Use the hard disk (MYZ80 format)  image  driver.   (This
29                      format cannot be autodetected.)
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31              cfi     Use  the  CFI  (DOS  fdcopy format) image driver.  (This
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35                      Use the ApriDisk image driver (from the utility  of  the
36                      same name).  (This format cannot be autodetected.)
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38              raw     Use the raw driver.
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41       -comp COMP
42              Select the compression method used on the source disc image file
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45              auto    Detect from the first few bytes of the file. This is the
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48              sq      Huffman coded (SQ / USQ).
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50              gz      Gzipped (gzip / gunzip).
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52              bz2     Burrows-Wheeler compressed (bzip2 / bunzip2).
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55       -side SIDE
56              Determines  which  side  (0  or  1)  of the source disc is to be
57              scanned. If this option  is  not  present  both  sides  will  be
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61       -dstep Double-step  the  source drive (used to read 360k discs in 1.2Mb
62              drives). Only supported by the Linux floppy driver.
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66              Set the number of times to attempt a read/write/format  in  case
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71              Do  not  autodetect  the  disc format; use the named format. The
72              format need only be an approximation to the actual  format  used
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81              Scan up to and including the specified cylinder.
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85              dskscan from another program  which  then  parses  what  dskscan
86              prints, this may be easier for it to cope with.
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AUTHOR

90       John Elliott <jce@seasip.demon.co.uk>.
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94Version 1.2.1                   23 January 2008                     dskscan(1)
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