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LibDsk is a library intended to give transparent access to floppy drivesand to the "disc image files" used by emulators to represent floppy drives.

It is intended for use in:

• Emulator tools: converting between real floppy discs and disc images,asCPCTRANS /PCWTRANS do underDOS.
• Filesystem utilities:CPMTOOLSis configurable to use LibDsk , thus allowing the use ofCPMTOOLS onemulator.DSK images. To do this, install LibDsk and then buildCPMTOOLS , using./configure --with-libdsk. ForCPMTOOLS 1.9 or 2.0,you will also need to applythis patch.
• Emulators: it is possible to use LibDsk as part of an emulator'sfloppy controller emulation, thus giving the emulator transparentaccess to.DSK files or real discs.

You will need an ANSI standard C compiler, prefered is the GNU CC. Optionalyou can build against the compression librarieszlib andlibbz2 and alsoyou can build an Java Native Interface binding to LibDsk. You can use LibDskunder DOS, Windows, Linux and MacOS.

sudo apt-get install zlib1g-devsudo apt-get install libbz2-dev

git clone https://github.com/lipro-cpm4l/libdsk.gitcd libdsk

./configure --with-zlib --with-bzlibmake allsudo make install

• LibDsk
• LibDsk LDBS
• LibDsk PDF

Original written by John Elliottseasip.webmaster@gmail.com and distributedunder the GNU Library General Public License version 2.

Primary-site:https://www.seasip.info/Unix/LibDsk/

The author provides the software in accordance with the terms ofthe GNU-GPL. The use of the software is free of charge and istherefore only at your own risk!No warranty or liability!

Any guarantee and liability is excluded!

Primary-site:https://www.seasip.info/Unix/LibDsk/

John Elliott is the originator of the C source code andas well as the associated scripts, descriptions and help files.This part is released and distributed under the GNU GeneralPublic License (GNU-GPL) Version 2.

A few parts of the source code are based on the work of otherauthors:

• Mark Ogden:Fixed some memory corruption issues detected by VS2017 analysis.Widenedtotal_sectors32 to 32 bits indskform. Swapped"sectors / track" and "sectors / cylinder" captions indskutil.
• Steven Fosdick:Fixed compilation issue on recent glibc.
• Emulix75:New disk image format implemented, SAP.
• Will Kranz:Teledisk read-only support for 'advanced' compression. Based onwteledskdecompression code by Will Kranz (relicensed under LGPLv2, withpermission).
• Ralf-Peter Nerlich:Correct the description of the 'W' command indskutil.All utilities now usebasename() (if available) to trim pathsfromargv[0]. Replacement CopyQM driver.
• Jurgen Sievers:Bug fixes an buffer overflow inrcpmfs driver when renaminga file with a full 8.3 name and a nonzero user number.
• Alistair John Bush:Patched Makefile.am to pass JAVACFLAGS to Java compiler.
• Sven Klose:Corrected a compilation problem on FreeBSD.
• Stuart Brady:Added a new geometry (FMT_TRDOS640).
• Ramlaid <www.ramlaid.com>:Modifiedcpcemu driver so that thedsk_trkids() function moreaccurately reflects the result from a real disk. Doesn't leak filehandles if file not SQ compressed. Uses the passed sector size indsk_xread() /dsk_xwrite() of thentwdm driver rather than thesector size in the geometry structure.
• Daniel Black:Corrected an install bug inMakefile.am.
• Simon Owen:Addedntwdm driver.
• Philip Kendall:Addeddsk_dirty() function.
• Per Ola Ingvarsson:A read-only CopyQM driver and CopyQM format documentation.
• Thierry Jouin:Bug fixes in the extended.DSK format handler.
• Darren Salt:Bug fixes in the example utilities.Manual pages added to the distribution.
• Cliff Lawson:Support added for.CFI format (a strange format used by CliffLawson to distribute Amstrad PC boot floppies).
• Kevin Thacker:Make libdsk compile in Microsoft Visual C++.

see:doc/COPYING,ChangeLog