ZIP2ST(1)

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ZIP2ST 💾✨

okay bestie, welcome to zip2st(1), one of the lil Hatari utilities, and honestly? it's giving "tiny tool, huge slay" 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

zip2st — turn a directory or a .zip archive into a .st disk image 🫶

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

zip2st <directory|srcname.zip> [dstname.st]

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so basically, zip2st is the girl who makes Atari .st disk images out of the contents of a directory or a .zip archive. no cap, that's the whole job and she does it gorgeously 💖

if you don't hand her a destination filename, she'll cook one up from the source name — the .zip extension gets removed and the .st prefix gets added. and here's the lil plot twist: if the basename tool is present, the file lands in the current directory; otherwise it goes to the directory where the source directory/archive is chilling. ✨

any single directories (other than 'auto') inside the source zip / directory hierarchy get traversed all the way down, so you don't end up with redundant intermediate directories cluttering up your generated disk image. it's called decluttering, look it up 💅

the .st disk image is a raw disk image, bestie. you can write it to a floppy using dd(1), or glow it up into a .msa disk image with hmsa(1). both iconic, both valid 🌈

⚠️ real talk: the contents of the uncompressed zip file need to be smaller than 2.88MB — that's the largest floppy image size Hatari supports. if you're over that, it's not giving, it's overflowing 😭

and one more thing, because I love you: if the source file names are longer than 8+3, use the atari-convert-dir script to convert them into Atari-compatible ones 🧚 if those files are inside a .zip archive, you need to extract them before conversion. extract first, convert second, periodt.

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

💜 AUTHOR 💜

written by Thomas Huth and Eero Tamminen. 🫶

this manual page was written by Teemu Hukkanen <tjhukkan at iki.fi> for the Debian project, and later modified by Eero Tamminen to suit the latest version of Hatari. main character energy from everyone involved, fr fr 🌟

📜 LICENSE 📜

this program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. ✨

💀 NO WARRANTY 💀

this program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. see the GNU General Public License for more details. no promises, bestie, that's just how it is 😭

and that's the whole page!! 💖 this lil diva comes to you courtesy of Hatari, dated 2016-02-26, and it's filed under ZIP2ST(1) — go make some floppy images, you absolute legend 🎀🦋⭐

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