lifdump

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AUTHOR

NAME

lifdump - dump a LIF image file to a physical LIF disk

SYNOPSIS

lifdump <input file> <output device>

lifdump <output device>

(Reads input from standard input)

DESCRIPTION

lifdump reads a LIF image file, as produced by lifimage and writes it to a pre-formatted LIF disk. The original contents of the disk (and the directory) are overwritten by this command and are thus lost. If lifdump is executed with 2 arguments, then the contents of the file named by the first argument are written to the device specified by the second argument. If it is executed with one argument, then the standard input stream is written to the device specified by that argument.

The disk must have already been formatted as an HP LIF disk, for example using a series 40 or series 70 machine and an HP9114 disk drive.

See comments in the lifimage source code for details of the image file format.

Note: you need read and write access to the floppy disk device.

EXAMPLES

If the file disk1.dat contains a LIF disk image then

lifdump disk1.dat /dev/fd1

will dump that file to a preformatted disk in device /dev/fd1

AUTHOR

lifdump was written by Tony Duell, ard@p850ug1.demon.co.uk and has been placed under the GNU Public License version 2.0