Wednesday, December 30, 2020

Re: [NEW] devel/libdsk and emulators/cpmtools

Hi Tim --

On Wednesday, December 30, 2020 5:51 PM, trondd <trondd@kagu-tsuchi.com> wrote:

> trondd trondd@kagu-tsuchi.com wrote:
>
> > The new ports together allow you to read, write, and manage CP/M disk
> > images. CPMTools provides the tools for copying, erasing, chaging
> > permissions and attributes of files as well as tools for creating,
> > checking, viewing file systems.
> > Libdsk adds drivers for different CP/M image types, both real-world and
> > emulator images. And provides libraries for emulators to access disk
> > images as drives.
> > I've had these locally for over a year when I needed to pull some files
> > out of some z80pack disk images but haven't used them much since. I recently
> > saw the CP/M emulator go by ports@ so thought I'd toss these out there
> > incase someone was interested.
> > Some images can be found here:
> > https://www.autometer.de/unix4fun/z80pack/
> > But I'd be curious if someone has other images to tesk with as cpmtools
> > does not support everything since systems of te time used a variety of
> > disk formats and sector layots.
> > Tim.
>
> Poke. Any CP/M users?
>
> Tim.

Thanks for the ports. Attached are some tweaked and cleaned up versions
of your original ports that I forgot to send back.

Admittedly, I don't have any real CP/M disks so I am likely not the
best person to test things, but hopefully this brings the ports more
in-line with something that can be committed.

~Brian

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