DASDCOPY(1)

💖 DASDCOPY(1) 💖

okay bestie, so this is the dasdcopy page from the General Commands Manual section, and it's literally about copying one DASD file into another DASD file. that's the whole vibe. let's get into it 🦋

✨ NAME ✨

dasdcopy — copy a DASD file to another DASD file 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

dasdcopy [-v] [-h] [-q] [-r] [-z] [-bz2] [-0] [-a] [-lfs] [-blks n]
[-cyls n] [-o type] ifile [sf=sfile] ofile

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

okay so real talk: this manual page is here to document the dasdcopy program. that's it, that's the job.

and what does dasdcopy do? it copies a DASD file to another DASD file. iconic. no notes. 👑

🦋 PARAMETERS 🦋

• ifile — the input FBA DASD file, aka where we're copying from 🌸
• sfile — an input compressed FBA shadow file, and yes it's optional, so no pressure 🫶
• ofile — the output compressed FBA DASD file, aka where it all lands ✨

💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -v — show the program version and then dip. quit. bye 👋
• -h — show help and quit 🙈
• -q — quiet mode, so no status spam while it's doing its thing 🤫
• -r — replace the output file if one already exists (yes, it will absolutely overwrite, be normal about it) 🔥
• -blks n — the size of the output FBA file 📏
• -cyls n — the size of the output CKD file 📐
• -z — compress using output zlib, and this is the default, so it's the main character here 💖
• -bz2 — compress using output bzip2 🌀
• -0 — don't compress the output at all, raw and unfiltered 💀
• -a — the output ckd file will have alternate cylinders ⭐
• -lfs — the output ckd file will be a single file even if it exceeds 2GB in size, bestie, it does NOT want to split 🌈
• -o type — the output file type. the options are CKD, CCKD, FBA, CFBA 👑

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

the programs are documented fully by The Hercules System/370, ESA/390, and z/Architecture Emulator, which you can find chilling in /usr/share/doc/hercules/html. go read it, iykyk 📚✨

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Hercules was created by Roger Bowler and is maintained by Jay Maynard. Jan Jaeger designed and implemented many of the advanced features of Hercules, including dynamic reconfiguration, integrated console, interpretive execution, and z/Architecture support. actual legends, fr fr 🫶

this manual page was written by Peter De Schrijver p2@debian.org for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GPL. so like, go off, but respectfully 💜

okay that's the whole page bestie, no cap, we did not skip a single thing 🎀

and yeah, the little footer at the bottom just says DASDCOPY(1) — same as the top, same as the manual section, cute little bookend moment ⭐🦋 bye!!