FLOPTOOL(1)

πŸ’– FLOPTOOL(1) πŸ’–

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. πŸŽ€


✨ NAME ✨

floptool β€” MESS Generic floppy image manipulation tool πŸ’…


πŸ¦‹ SYNOPSIS πŸ¦‹

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 ✨


🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

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. πŸ‘‘


πŸ’« COMMANDS πŸ’«

  • 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 🫢
  • convert [inputformat|auto] outputformat inputfile outputfile β€” convert a floppy disk image to a different format. you can name the inputformat yourself, or just say auto and let her figure it out 😌 then you tell her the outputformat, the inputfile, and the outputfile. boom, converted. periodt.

🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

floptool identify image.dsk

πŸ”₯ SEE ALSO πŸ”₯

mess(6)


and that's the whole page bestie, go forth and floppy πŸ’Ύβœ¨

this was version 0.176, dated 2016-07-21 β€” a lil vintage, lowkey a classic, mwah πŸ’‹