CCD2ISO(1)

📦 version 0.3, in debian bookworm, fedora 43, fedora 44, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💿 ccd2iso — bestie edition 💿

okay so you found the ccd2iso manual page, in the User Commands section of the manual, and honestly? iconic of you. here's the whole vibe, no notes, every detail preserved because i love you 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

ccd2iso — convert IMG format to ISO format

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

ccd2iso [FOO.IMG] [BAR.ISO]

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so basically, ccd2iso takes FOO.IMG and converts it to ISO format, then writes the whole thing out to BAR.ISO. that's the whole job. that's her main character arc. 💅

now, the rules of the group chat:

  • give her fewer arguments than she expects? she prints her help message and dips. no drama, just quit. 👋
  • give her more arguments than she expects? she silently ignores them and only uses the first two. not a word. no warning. she just vibes and pretends she didn't see them. 😭

so what even is an IMG file, i hear you asking? bestie. IMG files are raw-data copies of optical media, generated primarily by the Windows application CloneCD, and they're mainly used to store CDs with odd properties — like, we're talking sectors that need to have read errors when they're read. yes, that's a real thing, and yes, it's giving chaos. 🌪️

converting to ISO format removes this information, because ISO format does not support it. periodt. it just can't hold that.

IMG files almost always come with a little friend group:

  • a SUB file, which contains additional data for the disc format
  • a CCD file, which is a plaintext configuration file describing the disc layout

and here's the tea: ccd2iso does not make use of these files at all. nope. but the applications which generate them expect them to have the same FOO prefix as the IMG file. so keep the family together, okay? 🎀

🙈 LIMITATIONS 🙈

okay so she's not perfect, and we love her anyway. here's the lowdown:

  • ccd2iso currently only copies the first session of multisession discs — the rest is just... not invited to the party. 💀
  • she also outputs a harmless warning of Unrecognized sector mode. it's harmless!! it's just saying hi!! do not panic!! 🌸
  • ccd2iso utterly ignores the additional data in CCD or SUB files. utterly. completely. she said "not my business, not my problem." 😌

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

go read those too, they're the extended universe, iykyk 🧚

👑 AUTHOR 👑

this manual page was written by Rich Ercolani <rercola@acm.jhu.edu>, for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution (but it may, of course, be used by others), because the original program lacked a manual page. literally a hero for that. thank you for your service. 🫶

it may be distributed under the same terms as ccd2iso, the GNU GPL version 2 or later, at your option.

and that's the whole page bestie!! this was ccd2iso version 0.3, from June 2006 — yes she's an elder but she's still slaying, and this page lives in section 1 of the manual. now go convert something and drink some water. mwah. 💖✨🌸

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