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xdms

XDMS(1) 						      General Commands Manual							   XDMS(1)

NAME

       xdms - decompressing Amiga DMS files

SYNOPSIS

       xdms [-d destdir] [-p passwd] [-q] [-v] <command> dmsfile [outputfile]
       Commands:

       xdms u Unpack file

       xdms b Show attached banner

       xdms d Show attached FILEID.DIZ

       xdms f View full image information

       xdms t Test archive

       xdms v View DMS archive information

       xdms x Extract files inside DMS archives using readdisk

       xdms z Unpack to disk image and compress with gzip

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the xdms command.

       xdms  is  a tool for decompressing Amiga DMS files. DMS files contain disk images that are these days mainly useful for Amiga emulation. It
       can unpack DMS images to ADF images.

OPTIONS

       -d destdir
	      Unpack to a separate destination directory.

       -f     Override errors. Useful for desperate data salvaging.

       -p passwd
	      Decrypt with a password.

       -q     Be quiet.

       -v     Be verbose.

Examples
       To unpack a DMS file, do:

       xdms u foo.dms

BUGS

       Maybe.

SEE ALSO

       amigadepacker(1), lha(1), ppcrack(1), uae(1).  unadf(1), unlzx(1), xPK(1)

AUTHOR

       xdms was written by Andre' Rodrigues de la Rocha, but now hosted and maintained by Heikki Orsila <heikki.orsila@iki.fi>.

       This manual page was written by Gurkan Sengun <gurkan@linuks.mine.nu>, for the Debian project, and Heikki Orsila <heikki.orsila@iki.fi>.

								 December 11, 2005							   XDMS(1)

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