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- NAME
- xadUnDisk 1.12
-
- SYNOPSIS
- xadUnDisk FROM/A,TO,LOWCYL/N,HIGHCYL/N,ENTRY/N,PASSWORD,
- SAVETEXTS/K,NE=NOEXTERN/S,INFO=LIST/S,SHOWTEXTS/S,OW=OVERWRITE/S,
- IG=IGNOREGEOMETRY/S,FORMAT/S,DIMG=DISKIMAGE/S,NAI=NOASKINSERT/S,
- USL=USESECTORLABELS
-
- DESCRIPTION
- xadUnDisk is the master shell tool to extract data from
- disk archives.
-
- FROM specifies the disk archive that should be handled.
-
- TO is the destination. This maybe an device name like RAD:
- or any file name. TO is required when LIST option is not
- specified. When extracted to a file, this is a floppy
- image file (often called ADF), which can be used with all
- ADF dealing tools.
-
- LOWCYL and HIGHCYL name the lowest and highest cylinder that
- should be dearchived. Note that some clients do not support
- cylinder based dearchiving and thus ignore these options.
-
- ENTRY specifies the entry, which should be dearchived. Normal
- disk archives only store 1 entry, so there is no need for that
- option, but maybe there are multi-disk-archivers and then you
- need that option to specify the wanted entry. This is a decimal
- number. The first entry has number 1.
-
- PASSWORD can be used to supply a password for unarchiving of
- encrypted archives.
-
- After the SAVETEXTS keyword you may specify a filename which
- should be used to save information texts. The name gets an
- additional point and the text number. E.g. "SAVETEXTS text"
- produces files text.1, text.2, ...
-
- NOEXTERN prohibits the use of external clients for
- recognition purposes.
-
- INFO or LIST prints information about the archive and does not
- do any unarchiving.
-
- SHOWTEXTS tells the program to display information texts, if
- there are some of them in the archive.
-
- OVERWRITE forces the program to overwrite an already existing
- destination file.
-
- IGNOREGEOMETRY forces the tool to ignore wrong drive geometry
- when unarchiving to an device.
-
- Specify USESECTORLABELS when you want to store SectorLabels onto
- disk (no effect for output files). Not all archivers support them
- and not all destination device types support this storage. Most
- time you will not need this switch, as the labels nearly never
- contain useful information.
-
- If the destination disk is not formatted, use FORMAT to do this
- together with writing.
-
- Specify DISKIMAGE, if you want to write a disk image to floppy
- disk. The program also asks you, if you want to handle a file
- as image, if the data type is not detected without DIMG keyword.
- This can also be used to read a disk-image from a device or to
- copy 2 disks.
-
- Specify NOASKINSERT if you do not like to be asked to insert disk.
-
- EXAMPLES
- Shell> xadUnDisk archive.dms RAD:
- Unarchive the dms file to RAD:
-
- Shell> xadUnDisk archive.dms LIST
- Tells information about archive.dms file.
-
- HISTORY
- xadUnDisk 1.12
- - Now also supports to read from devices like DF0: to produce disk-
- image files.
-
- xadUnDisk 1.11
- - fixed Enforcer hit.
- - added USESECTORLABELS keyword.
-
- xadUnDisk 1.10
- - Image files are passed through xadmaster.library now.
-
- xadUnDisk 1.9
- - added NOASKINSERT keyword.
-
- xadUnDisk 1.8
- - bug fix
-
- xadUnDisk 1.7
- - bug fix
-
- xadUnDisk 1.6
- - added FORMAT keyword and disk image support
-
- xadUnDisk 1.5
- - before a disk is written, you get ask to insert it or to abort
-
- xadUnDisk 1.4
- - buf fix in report hook
-
- xadUnDisk 1.3
- - bug fix in report hook
-
- xadUnDisk 1.2
- - added output for corrupted files
-
- xadUnDisk 1.1
- - added support for file descriptions
-
- xadUnDisk 1.0
- - First public release.
-
- COPYRIGHT
- xadUnDisk is freely distributable for noncommercial use.
-
- AUTHOR
- Dirk Stöcker
- Geschwister-Scholl-Straße 10
- 01877 Bischofswerda
- GERMANY
-
- Dirk Stoecker <stoecker@epost.de>
-