LIFGET Manual Page

     NAME
          lifget - extract a file from a LIF disk or image

     SYNOPSIS
          lifget [-d] [-b] <input device> <filename> <output file>

          lifget -f [-d] [-b] <image file> <filename> <output file>

          lifget [-d] [-b] <input device> <filename>

          lifget -f [-d] [-b] <image file> <filename>

          (last 2 forms send the extracted file to standard output)

          lifget -?

     DESCRIPTION
          lifget extracts a single file, specified by filename from a
          physical LIF disk or LIF disk image.  filename is
          case-sensitive and should normally be given in upper case.
          If lifget is executed with 3 arguments after the options
          then the third argument is used as the name of the linux
          file that the LIF file is copied to. If only 2 arguments are
          given then the file is copied to standard output.

     OPTIONS
          -f   Extract a file from a LIF disk image file rather than
               from a physical disk.

          -d   Prefix the output file by a 32-byte header consisting
               of the directory record from the LIF disk directory.

          -b   Copy the blocks occupied by the file (including the
               entire last block) rather then the number of bytes
               given by the file length. This option has no meaning
               for file types where the file is always assumed to
               occupy complete blocks.

          -?   Print a message giving the program usage to standard
               error.

     EXAMPLES
          If disk1.lif is a LIF disk image containing a file called
          TEST1 then

          lifget -f disk1.lif TEST1 lif_test_file

          will copy the file TEST1 from the LIF disk image to the
          linux file lif_test_file.

          Similarly

          lifget /dev/fd1 PROG hp_program

          will copy the file PROG from the physical LIF disk in
          /dev/fd1 to the linux file hp_program.

     REFERENCES
          The LIF disk directory format is documented in the HP-IL
          Interface Owners Manual for the with further details
          (particularly HP41 and HP75 file types) in the HP-41
          Synthetic Quick Reference Guide (Jeremy

     BUGS
          No attempt has been made to handle bad track replacements on
          a LIF disk. Not all file types have been tested.

     AUTHOR
          lifget was written by Tony Duell, ard.p850ug1@gmail.com
          and has been placed under the GNU Public License version 2.0