1HMSA(1) Hatari utilities HMSA(1)
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6 hmsa - Atari MSA / ST disk image creator and converter
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9 hmsa diskimage [disksize]
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12 Hmsa is little program to create compressed Atari MSA (Magic Shadow
13 Archiver) and uncompressed ST disk images and to convert disk images
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16 MSA and ST image format saving code is same as in Hatari itself.
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19 If you give only one parameter, the file name of an existing MSA or ST
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23 If the file does not exist and you give also a disk size:
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33 An empty disk of the given size will be created.
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35 Disk image format is recognized based on the file name extension
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39 Create a normal double sided empty ST disk image:
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42 Convert an MSA format disk image to an ST format one:
43 hmsa disk.msa
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46 hatari(1), zip2st(1), atari-hd-image(1)
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49 Written by Thomas Huth <huth at tuxfamily.org>. This manual page added
50 by Eero Tamminen <oak at helsinkinet fi>.
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53 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
54 under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
55 Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your
56 option) any later version.
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59 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
60 WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MER‐
61 CHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General
62 Public License for more details.
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66Hatari 2010-05-30 HMSA(1)