FOSDD(1)

📦 version 1.0.1, in debian trixie, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

✨ FOSDD(1) ✨

okay bestie, welcome to FOSDD(1) — the user-commands corner of the manual, no cap 💅 this is fosdd and she is here to do one thing and do it cute.

🌸 NAME 🌸

fosdd — literally just FOS dd. that's the whole name. iconic, brief, mysterious. we love a short king 👑

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

fosdd [options] device destination

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so the tea is: this is the tool that converts a floppy image into a disk image, and also does the whole thing in reverse (vice-versa, periodt). it's giving time-travel but for storage media 🦋

🌈 the options, one by one, no skipping

  • -h, --help — shows you the help message. she's helpful! when you're lost, ask her 🫶
  • -v, --version — shows the version. proof she's real and she's out here ✨
  • -l, --force — overwrites the destination if it already exists. heads up bestie: this one will absolutely clobber whatever was chillin' there before, so know what you're doing 💀
  • -l, --fos-logger — turns the FOS logger ON. yes, both of these use -l in this page, and no, i did not make that up, i am simply reporting the facts fr fr 🙈
ngl, both --force and --fos-logger are listed with -l here. that's what the page says, so that's what you get. don't shoot the messenger 😭

🧚 the arguments

  • device — this is where you point at the thing. the page gives you the whole menu:
    • /dev/fd0 for floppy disk
    • /dev/sda for hard disk, etc, ...
    • image.di for a floppy or disk image
  • destination — the destination to save the image. that's it, that's the job 🌟

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Written by Mathieu Schroeter <mathieu@schroetersa.ch>. thank you for your service 🫡💜

🍓 REPORTING BUGS 🍓

Report bugs to <mathieu@schroetersa.ch>. found a gremlin? send it to the email, not to the group chat 💌

Copyright © 2023 Mathieu Schroeter

This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

translation bestie: free as in go read the source for the rules, and if it breaks your stuff, that's on you, not on them. no warranty, zero, nada, not even the implied kind 💀

and that's the whole page, mwah 💋 this was fosdd, Mars 2023, and you just read the FOSDD(1) manual — go forth and convert some images, main character 💅✨🦋

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