This package allows to access CP/M file systems similar to the well-known mtools package, which accesses MSDOS file systems. I use it for file exchange with a Z80-PC simulator, but it works on floppy devices as well. Currently it contains:
o cpmls - list sorted directory with output similar to ls, DIR, P2DOS DIR and CP/M3 DIR[FULL] o cpmcp - copy files from and to CP/M file systems o cpmrm - erase files from CP/M file systems o cpmchmod - change file permissions o cpmchattr - change file attributes o mkfs.cpm - make a CP/M file system o fsck.cpm - check and repair a CP/M file system (only simple errors can be repaired so far). Some images of broken file systems are provided for testing. o fsed.cpm - view CP/M file system o manual pages for everything including the CP/M file system format
All CP/M file system features are supported. Password protection is ignored, because passwords are easy to decrypt, but a pseudo file [passwd] contains them, if you are curious what your old password has been. The disk label is read as special file [label]. User numbers are specified as user:file.
Cpmtools should compile and work out of the box on each POSIX compliant system. It can be additionally compiled for Win32 systems. The source is available as a GNU zipped tape archive from:
http://www.moria.de/~michael/cpmtools/
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