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dskid(1) Emulators dskid(1)

NAME

dskid - identify floppy or disc image file for emulated machines

SYNOPSIS

dskid [-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 formatted. It reports the required driver and various information about the disc geometry.

OPTIONS

Determines which driver is to be used.
Select according to the disc image file. This is the default.
Use the DSK (CPCEmu format) image driver.
Use the extended version of the DSK format.
Use the floppy driver.
Use the hard disk (MYZ80 format) image driver. (This format cannot be autodetected.)
Use the CFI (DOS fdcopy format) image driver. (This format cannot be autodetected.)
Use the raw driver.

Set the number of times to attempt to read the disc in case of error.

Select the compression method used on the source disc image file (has no effect when reading a floppy disc).
Detect from the first few bytes of the file. This is the default.
Huffman coded (SQ / USQ).
Gzipped (gzip / gunzip).
Burrows-Wheeler compressed (bzip2 / bunzip2).

Determines which side (0 or 1) of the disc (image) is to be identified.

AUTHOR

John Elliott <seasip.webmaster@gmail.com>.

Darren Salt wrote the man pages.

17 September 2018 Version 1.5.9