USAGE of vf88man utilities version 2.1 vf88man are utilities to manage D88 images for the Epson PX-8 and PX-4 emulator made by Toshiya TAKEDA (http://homepage3.nifty.com/takeda-toshiya/). The emulator allows reading and writing images from the emulator itself, but not from and to the file system. These utilities make this possible. Extra features are creating empty D88 images and erasing files from images. There is also a conversion tool to convert vfd images (used by vfloppy) to D88 images. Below the usage of the tools, but the definitive documentation is the c-source. Generic but optional argument for all tools: -d N - with N a number between 1 and 4. This enables the debug printouts, which are graded into function level. Mainly created for debugging while writing, it might be useful or amusing for end users. vformat - vformat This utility creates a empty image file. The only argument is the file name. An existing file will not be overwritten. This program version is independent from the d88header.bin, which was needed by the 2.0 version of vformat. vfread - vfread [} This utility has two modes; with one argument, this is interpreted as an image name and a primitive directory is printed. Technically the relevant information of each used directory extend is printed, so files larger than 32 kByte will appear multiple times. With two arguments, the second is interpreted as a filename which should be read from the image (first argument). This filename is restricted to the 8.3 format and may have no path information, or it will be mangled, and the file will not be found. The created filename will appear as typed in (at least with case sensitive file systems). vfwrite - vfwrite This utility will attempt to add a file to the image. Checks are made on availability of free blocks and extends in the image (even compensating for an extisting copy of the file in the image, which will be overwritten). The file name is restricted to the 8.3 format or the name in the image will be mangled. vferase - vferase By special request this utility was created to erase files from an image. The fileName is case insensitive, but is restricted to 8.3 format. vfd2d88 - vfd2d88 This utility writes data from a vfd format image to an existing d88 image. Ther are probably not many of those outside my computer, but it was easy to make and useful to me. The vfd format is used by the 1.x and 2.0 interim release of epspd TF-20 emulator, which allows connecting a Linux machine to a real PX-4 or PX-8. Before usage, create a d88 image with vformat first. fjkraan, 2010-04-05