View source for Convert Apple DiskCopy 4.2 images to standard disk images

To convert an Apple DiskCopy 4.2 image (detectable by the <code>file</code> utility), you need to ignore the first 0x54 (decimal 84) bytes of the file.<ref>https://wiki.68kmla.org/DiskCopy_4.2_format_specification</ref>

== Cookbook ==

=== Convert one file ===

<syntaxhighlight lang="shell">
tail --bytes=+85 filename
</syntaxhighlight>

=== Convert a directory of files ===

<syntaxhighlight lang="shell">
for f in *.image
do
    tail --bytes=+85 "$f" > "extracted/$f"
done
</syntaxhighlight>

== References ==
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