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DiskDump
===
**DiskDump** is a Node module with both a command-line interface and a web server API for converting disk images
to/from various formats (eg, JSON files, JSON files with comments, IMG disk images, etc).
Building Disk Images from Folders/Files
---
In addition to converting disk images to/from JSON, DiskDump can also create disk images from the contents of local
files/folders.
For example, from the root directory of the project, you could run:
node modules/diskdump/bin/diskdump --path="apps/pc/1981/visicalc/README.md" --format=img --output=disk.img
to produce a `disk.img` containing one file, "README.md", which you could then mount on your local operating
system *or* inside a PCjs machine.
To make the disk image more useful, you might want to download a copy of [VisiCalc](http://www.bricklin.com/history/vcexecutable.htm)
into that folder as well, so that you could then run:
node modules/diskdump/bin/diskdump --path="apps/pc/1981/visicalc/vc.com;README.md" --format=img --output=disk.img
to produce a `disk.img` containing both "VC.COM" and "README.md". In fact, this is exactly how the
[disk.json](/apps/pc/1981/visicalc/disk.json) stored in the [VisiCalc](/apps/pc/1981/visicalc/) folder was generated.
The equivalent web server API request would look like:
http://localhost:8088/api/v1/dump?path=/apps/pc/1981/visicalc/vc.com;README.md&format=img
DiskDump is a port of the original [JavaScript Machines](http://jsmachines.net/) **convdisk.php** utility.