dskid(1)

hey bestie, welcome to dskid(1) from the Emulators manual — the floppy/disc-image detective that tells you how a disc or image is formatted. main character energy for sure 💖

✨ NAME ✨

dskid — identify floppy or disc image file for emulated machines. iykyk

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

the command shape is literally this:

dskid [-format FORMAT] [-type TYPE] [-side SIDE] [-comp COMP] [-retry COUNT] DISKIMAGE [DSKIMAGE...]

so: one or more DISKIMAGE / DSKIMAGE... files, plus whatever options you need. slay ✨

🌸 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. the way it just knows the geometry tea 🫶

💅 OPTIONS 💅

quick heads-up: -format FORMAT shows up in the synopsis, but the original page doesn't spell it out separately in this section. the options it does spell out are:

• -type TYPE — determines which driver is to be used. the possible TYPE values are:
  • 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. retry era
• -comp COMP — select the compression method used on the source disc image file (has no effect when reading a floppy disc). the possible COMP values are:
  • 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. pick a side, bestie

🎀 AUTHOR 🎀

John Elliott <seasip.webmaster@gmail.com>. 💌

Darren Salt wrote the man pages. iconic behavior

that's the whole page, bestie. it's version 1.5.9, dated 17 September 2018. periodt 💖✨