inforead(1)

NAME
inforead - read Infocom data files from an IBM bootable diskette

SYNOPSIS
inforead story-file [ start-track [ drive# ]]

DESCRIPTION
Inforead is a program for reading infocom format story files from an IBM bootable diskette.

The data file is extracted starting at track 6 and continues for the length of the data area. The data file that is created is the correct length and is verified using the checksum in the data area.

OPTIONS
This program does not accept command-line options.

LIMITATIONS
This only works for type 3 games on IBM 5 1/4" diskettes. I believe that all of the bootable Infocom games were type 3.

See the source code (inforead.c in the source distribution) for more details about this tool.

NOTES
This program has been largely supplanted by Stefan Jokisch's ZCut, not part of the ZTools distribution but available at the Interactive Fiction Archive (ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive)

SEE ALSO
check(1), infodump(1), pix2gif(1), txd(1)

AUTHOR
Mark Howell 13 September 1992 howell_ma@movies.enet.dec.com

CURRENT MAINTAINER
Matthew Russotto russotto@pond.com (but see NOTES)