lifpurge - purge a file from a LIF image file
lifpurge [-l] [-p] <LIF image file> <filename>
lifpurge -?
lifpurge purges a single file, specified by filename from a LIF image file. filename is case-sensitive and must be given in upper case.
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-l |
Relax file name checking, allow underscores in filenames. | ||
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-p |
Purge file on a floppy disk with a LIF file system. Note: this option is only supported on LINUX. Specify the floppy device instead of the lif-image-filename. See the LIFUTILS tutorial for details. | ||
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-? |
Print a message giving the program usage to standard error. |
If disk1.dat is a LIF image file containing a file called TEST1 then
lifpurge disk1.dat TEST1
will purge the file TEST1 from the LIF image file.
The LIF disk directory format is documented in the HP-IL Interface Owners Manual for the HP-71 (Hewlett-Packard) with further details (particularly HP41 and HP75 file types) in the HP-41 Synthetic Quick Reference Guide (Jeremy Smith)
lifpurge was written by Joachim Siebold, bug400@gmx.de using code from Tony Duell, ard@p850ug1.demon.co.uk and has been placed under the GNU Public License version 2.0