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A Swiss Army Knife for working with FAT partitions on Spectrum emulator HDF images
hdfmonkey: A Swiss Army Knife for manipulating HDF disk images
ABOUT
hdfmonkey provides a suite of tools for working with FAT filesystems contained in HDF disk images. HDF is the standard format used for virtual hard disks in ZX Spectrum emulators such as Fuse http://fuse-emulator.sourceforge.net/, so hdfmonkey allows these disk images to be prepared without having to go through a physical disk as an intermediate step - particularly useful when developing software for FAT-supporting systems like ESXDOS and ResiDOS.
Commands provided include: clone, create, format, get, ls, mkdir, put, rebuild, rm
These commands are passed as a parameter to hdfmonkey along with any other required arguments:
hdfmonkey <command> <disk-image> [other params]
For further information on command formats, type 'hdfmonkey help'.
INSTALLING
From a tarball (see http://files.zxdemo.org/gasman/speccy/hdfmonkey/):
tar xzf hdfmonkey-0.4.tar.gz
cd hdfmonkey-0.4
./configure
make
sudo make install
From git:
git clone https://github.com/gasman/hdfmonkey.git
cd hdfmonkey
autoheader
aclocal
autoconf
automake -a
./configure
make
sudo make install
From git into a Debian source package:
git clone https://github.com/gasman/hdfmonkey.git
dpkg-source -b hdfmonkey
From git into Debian binary package:
git clone https://github.com/gasman/hdfmonkey.git hdfmonkey-0.4.1
cd hdfmonkey-0.4.1
fakeroot debian/rules binary
TODO
Implement a FUSE / MacFUSE filesystem driver, so that the disk image can be mounted and accessed by standard OS file operations.
COPYRIGHT
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of version 3 of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
AUTHORS
Matt Westcott [email protected]
All of the clever FAT handling is handled by FatFs by ChaN: http://elm-chan.org/fsw/ff/00index_e.html
Additional contributions by Miguel Guerreiro, Philip Kendall and Sergio Baldovi.
FURTHER READING
HDF file format: http://faqwiki.zxnet.co.uk/wiki/HDF_format ESXDOS: http://www.esxdos.org/ ResiDOS: http://www.worldofspectrum.org/residos/
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