STImage

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                **                  STImage                 **
                **                version 0.1.              **
                **                (c) dkc 1997              **
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                **          email: dkc@ecr.mu.oz.au         **
                **     www: http://www.ecr.mu.oz.au/~dkc    **
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 0. Contents
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   1. Distribution.
   2. About the program.
   3. Usage instructions.
   5. Legalities.


 1. Distribution
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    You may freely distribute this software unmodified in its original
    zipped form as long as it is for non-commercial, non-profit purposes.


 2. About the program
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    STImage is a simple program to read and write disk images.
    It will not read disks that use special formatting methods nor will
    it successfully read copy-protected disks.

    These disk images can be used with PACIFIST or when written back onto
    a disk, can be used with Gemulator as well (if the disk is formatted
    MSDOS compatible).

    When writing disk images onto a disk, the program will not format the
    disk for you. You must have a correctly formatted disk. This is because
    many disk images are not of the standard DOS size so DOS will not be
    able to format it for you.
    There are many utilities out there which can format extended DOS disks.


 3. Usage instructions
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    These are the command line options:

stimage <[read] [write]> <imagename> <[auto] [sides n] [tracks n] [sectors n]>

    The first argument is the operation. (ie read OR write)
    The 2nd argument is the name of the image file
    and if you want it to autodetect the disk size, then put "auto" as your
    3rd argument, else you need to put in at least one of the sides,
    tracks, or sectors parameters.

    Examples:
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    * Automatically detect & read a disk into an image file called diska.st:

          stimage read diska.st auto

    * Automatically detect & write an image file called diska.st onto disk:

          stimage write diska.st auto

    * Read a disk into an image file called diska.st with you specifying
      the disk parameters:

          stimage read diska.st sides 2 tracks 82 sectors 10


 5. Legalities
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    This software is provided as is. The author will not accept any
    liability arising from the use of this product.
    No warranty is given of fitness for any purpose for this product,
    written or implied.
    Use at your own risk.
    Certain names used in this program are trademarks of their
    respective owners.

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