CP/M archive to image 8" CP/M floppies

[Tom Jennings]

On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Chris M wrote:

> yeah do both if you can. But create the entire disk
> image FIRST. Sometimes you don't get a second try...

Good point.


A nice hack would be a cgi script that *mounts* the CP/M image for
FTP access to the disk-image contents:

ftp://url/path/IMAGES/DISK99	# points to sector image

ftp://url/cpmfiles?i=DISK99	# contents of DISK99

cgi cpmfiles takes one arg (i) that's the image to mount.
Then you could have it all; and there would be no chance
for the files to get out of sync.


This could be generalized on Real OSs such that

$ cpmfile DISK99.img --extract DDT.COM

(where DISK99.img is a CP/M image file) extracts DDT.COM and
leaves it laying about.



All sorts of obvious creeping featuritis comes to mind:

$ cpmfile *.img --list SID.COM




I hand-wave CP/M diskette geometry issues as obvious (--geom
spt/tracks/skew/sides/etc).