FLOPTOOL(1)
π FLOPTOOL(1) π
okay bestie, so this is the manual page for floptool β it lives under the MESS umbrella and it's your girl for floppy stuff. π
β¨ NAME β¨
floptool β MESS Generic floppy image manipulation tool π
π¦ SYNOPSIS π¦
floptool option
like, that's the whole vibe. you pass it an option (which is really a command, see below) and it does the thing β¨
πΈ DESCRIPTION πΈ
so floptool is literally the tool for the maintenance and manipulation of floppy disk images that MESS users need to deal with. no cap. it's giving "i have a floppy image and i need to know/change what it is" energy and honestly? iconic. π
π« COMMANDS π«
identify inputfile [inputfile ... ]β determine the format of a floppy disk image. yes you can hand it multiple input files at once, she can multitask π«Άconvert [inputformat|auto] outputformat inputfile outputfileβ convert a floppy disk image to a different format. you can name theinputformatyourself, or just sayautoand let her figure it out π then you tell her theoutputformat, theinputfile, and theoutputfile. boom, converted. periodt.
π EXAMPLES π
floptool identify image.dsk
π₯ SEE ALSO π₯
mess(6)
and that's the whole page bestie, go forth and floppy πΎβ¨
this was version 0.176, dated 2016-07-21 β a lil vintage, lowkey a classic, mwah π
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