dskid(1) Emulators dskid(1)NAMEdskid - identify floppy or disc image file for emulated machines
SYNOPSISdskid [-format FORMAT] [-type TYPE] [-side SIDE] [-comp COMP] [-retry
COUNT] DISKIMAGE [DSKIMAGE...]
DESCRIPTION
Dskid is a utility which will identify how a disc (or image) is formatā
ted. It reports the required driver and various information about the
disc geometry.
OPTIONS-type TYPE
Determines which driver is to be used.
auto Select according to the disc image file. This is the
default.
dsk Use the DSK (CPCEmu format) image driver.
edsk Use the extended version of the DSK format.
floppy Use the floppy driver.
myz80 Use the hard disk (MYZ80 format) image driver. (This
format cannot be autodetected.)
cfi Use the CFI (DOS fdcopy format) image driver. (This
format cannot be autodetected.)
raw Use the raw driver.
-retry COUNT
Set the number of times to attempt to read the disc in case of
error.
-comp COMP
Select the compression method used on the source disc image file
(has no effect when reading a floppy disc).
auto Detect 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).
-side SIDE
Determines which side (0 or 1) of the disc (image) is to be
identified.
AUTHOR
John Elliott <jce@seasip.demon.co.uk>.
Darren Salt wrote the man pages.
Version 1.2.1 23 January 2008 dskid(1)