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 <seasip.webmaster@gmail.com>.
Darren Salt wrote the man pages.
