Cpmtools

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:

cpmls - list sorted directory with output similar to ls, DIR, P2DOS DIR and CP/M3 DIR[FULL]
cpmcp - copy files from and to CP/M file systems
cpmrm - erase files from CP/M file systems
mkfs.cpm - make a CP/M file system
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.
fsed.cpm - view CP/M file system
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. The source is available from ftp://cantor.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/cpmtools.tar.gz.

Michael Haardt