1dskconv(1)                         Emulators                        dskconv(1)
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NAME

6       dskconv - Convert a disc image file from one format to another
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SYNOPSIS

9       dskconv  [-itype TYPE] [-otype TYPE] [-icomp COMP] [-ocomp COMP] [-for‐
10       mat FMT] INPUT-IMAGE OUTPUT-IMAGE

DESCRIPTION

12       Dskconv converts a disc image file from one format to  another.  Unlike
13       dsktrans(1)  it  can handle files where different tracks have different
14       sector layouts; however, it cannot handle copying to/from devices  that
15       are not disc image files (such as floppy drives or rcpmfs directories).
16       See dsktrans(1) for a more general copy, and dskdump(1)  for  a  slower
17       but more accurate copy which may preserve more of these details.
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OPTIONS

20       -itype TYPE
21              Determines  which  driver  is to be used to read from the source
22              disc. Some examples are:
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24              auto    Select according to the disc image  file.  This  is  the
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27              dsk     Use the DSK (CPCEmu format) image driver.
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29              edsk    Use the extended version of the DSK format.
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31              floppy  Use the floppy driver.
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33              ntwdm   (Under Windows 2000 and later) Use Simon Owen's FDRAWCMD
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36              myz80   Use the hard disk (MYZ80 format)  image  driver.   (This
37                      format cannot be autodetected.)
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39              cfi     Use  the  CFI  (DOS  fdcopy format) image driver.  (This
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42              apridisk
43                      Use the ApriDisk image driver (from the utility  of  the
44                      same name).  (This format cannot be autodetected.)
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46              raw     Use the raw driver.
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48              logical Similar  to the raw driver, but the resulting disc image
49                      contains tracks laid out in  logical  filesystem  order.
50                      Mainly  used for imaging discs in formats (such as ADFS)
51                      where the mapping of tracks to cylinders/heads does  not
52                      match the way it's done on the PC.
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54              qm      Sydex's CopyQM format
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60              Determines  which  driver is to be used to write to the destina‐
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65              Select the compression method used on the source disc image file
66              (has  no  effect when reading a floppy disc). Use 'none' to dis‐
67              able transparent decompression of gzipped disc images (for exam‐
68              ple, the Slackware installer rootdisks).
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70              auto    Detect from the first few bytes of the file. This is the
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73              sq      Huffman coded (SQ / USQ).
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75              gz      Gzipped (gzip / gunzip).
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77              bz2     Burrows-Wheeler compressed (bzip2 / bunzip2).
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81              Select the compression to be used on output. Compression methods
82              are as for -icomp, except that bz2 cannot be used.
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SEE ALSO

85       dskdump(1), dsktrans(1)
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AUTHOR

88       John Elliott <seasip.webmaster@gmail.com>.
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90       Darren Salt wrote the man pages.
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94Version 1.5.9                  17 September 2018                    dskconv(1)