man disk2zip (Commandes) - Commodore 1541 ZipCode compressor

NAME

disk2zip - Commodore 1541 ZipCode compressor

SYNOPSIS

disk2zip [options] imagele.d64 [ zipcodele ]

DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briey the disk2zip command.

The Commodore 1541 disk archiver ZipCode was developed in order to make it possible to transfer disk images over modem lines. Nowadays it is better to use gzip(1) on the disk images. The disk2zip command is provided mainly for historical reasons, as a replacement for the ZipCode compressor.

OPTIONS

disk2zip follows the usual Unix command line syntax, with options starting with a dash (`-').

--
Stop processing options. This is useful if the rst le name argument begins with a dash.
-iiidd
Use 0xii 0xdd (hexadecimal) as the disk identier. The default is 0x36 0x34, or `64'.

SECURITY

The names of the created ZipCode les are prexed with the strings 1!, 2!, 3!, and 4!, just like ZipCode works on the Commodore 64. Some Unix shells treat the character ! specially. To avoid unpleasant situations, please refer to the documentation of the shell you are using.

AUTHOR

The disk2zip utility was designed and implemented by Marko Mkel <marko.makela@nic.funet.fi>.

SEE ALSO