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NAME

pro_fmt - Create a blank Apple II ProDOS disk image file

VERSION

This document describes version 0.201 of pro_fmt, released September 12, 2015 as part of AppleII-LibA2 version 0.201.

SYNOPSIS

pro_fmt [options] FILE

DESCRIPTION

pro_fmt creates blank ProDOS disk images. The images are NOT bootable, because they lack the necessary code in the boot blocks, unless you use the "--boot-from" option to copy the boot blocks from a bootable disk image.

Note that some emulators cannot deal with image files that are smaller than their nominal size. That is, they expect a 280 block disk image file to be 143,360 bytes long. Always use the "--extend" option when creating image files for such emulators.

OPTIONS

-b, --boot-from=FILE  Copy boot blocks from disk image FILE
-e, --extend          Extend FILE to its maximum size
-f, --force           Overwrite an existing file
-d, --dos-order       Make a DOS 3.3-order image file
-p, --prodos-order    Make a ProDOS-order image file
-s, --size=BLOCKS     Make the image BLOCKS blocks in size
                        (default 280)
-v, --volume=NAME     Use NAME for the ProDOS volume name
                        (default NEWDISK)
    --help            Display this help message
    --version         Display version information

CONFIGURATION AND ENVIRONMENT

pro_fmt requires no configuration files or environment variables.

DEPENDENCIES

pro_fmt requires the modules AppleII::ProDOS and AppleII::Disk, which are included with AppleII-LibA2.

INCOMPATIBILITIES

None reported.

BUGS AND LIMITATIONS

No bugs have been reported.

AUTHOR

Christopher J. Madsen <perl AT cjmweb.net>

Please report any bugs or feature requests to <bug-AppleII-LibA2 AT rt.cpan.org> or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Report.html?Queue=AppleII-LibA2.

You can follow or contribute to AppleII-LibA2's development at https://github.com/madsen/perl-libA2.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2015 by Christopher J. Madsen.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY

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