dskparse(1)

📦 version 1.5.22, in fedora 43, fedora 44, nixos 26.05, nixpkgs unstable

💖 dskparse(1) — diagnostic dump of disc image file 💖

okay bestie, so this is the manual page for dskparse, and it lives in section 1 of the Emulators manual. it's a whole little tool for peeking inside disc images, and honestly? iconic. let's get into it 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

dskparse — diagnostic dump of disc image file 🕵️‍♀️

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

dskparse [-type TYPE] [-comp COMP] DISKIMAGE [DSKIMAGE...]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so like, Dskparse reads a disk image file and then outputs an annotated hex dump showing you everything inside it. slay. 🔥

the exact format of that output depends on what type of file you're examining — so it's giving "custom fit", not one-size-fits-all, and we love that for it 💅

✨ OPTIONS ✨

  • -type TYPE — this is the one that decides which LibDsk driver gets used to parse the file. pick your fighter:
    • auto — selects according to the disc image file. this is the default, bestie, so if you don't say anything it just figures it out for you 🫶
    • dsk — uses the DSK (CPCEmu format) image driver.
    • edsk — uses the extended version of the DSK format. fancy.
    • floppy — uses the floppy driver.
    • myz80 — uses the hard disk (MYZ80 format) image driver. > heads up: this format cannot be autodetected. 😭
    • cfi — uses the CFI (DOS fdcopy format) image driver. > same deal: this format cannot be autodetected. 😭
    • raw — uses the raw driver.
  • -types — lists ALL the disk image types supported by this version of LibDsk. it's the "show me everything" option and it eats every time 👑
  • -comp COMP — selects the compression method used on the source disc image file. > note: this has no effect when reading a floppy disc. okay so your choices are:
    • auto — detects 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).

💀 BUGS 💀

bestie, listen, there are two situations where dskparse will literally just. not. produce any output. no cap:

  • it will not produce any output if you use it on a real floppy drive instead of a disk image file 🙈
  • it will also not produce any output if you run it against a .LDBST disk image, because .LDBST files are already human-readable text. like, there's nothing to dump, it's already giving readable 💅

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

👑 AUTHOR 👑

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

and that's the whole page, bestie!! this was Version 1.5.19, dated 24 February 2022, and it's from the Emulators manual — section 1, dskparse(1) 🎀✨ thanks for reading, ily, go dump some disc images responsibly 🫶💖

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