Convert Apple DiskCopy 4.2 images to standard disk images

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To convert an Apple DiskCopy 4.2 image (detectable by the file utility), you need to ignore the first 0x54 (decimal 84) bytes of the file.[1]

Cookbook

Convert one file

tail --bytes=+85 filename

Convert a directory of files

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

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