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Re: Apple GEOS file structures unveiled - now with AppleCommander command-line support

On 3/8/2012 6:52 AM, Oliver Schmidt wrote:

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From the cc65 developers perspective it would of course be great if
CiderPress and/or AppleCommander would allow to place the output file
of the cc65 linker directly in an Apple GEOS disk image as Apple GEOS
file, thus superseding the additional convert step.
With that gauntlet thrown down, who could resist? AppleCommander command line support has been added to properly place cc65-produced GEOS files on ProDOS images. John Matthews has posted the 1.3.5.11 build in the AC download page: 
https://sites.google.com/site/drjohnbmatthews/applecommander
This pico-release adds the -geos argument. Given a GEOS file in Oliver's CONVERT format: 
http://wiki.cc65.org/doku.php?id=cc65:apple2:geosconvertformat
AC can be invoked like so to place that file on a disk image:

java ac.jar -geos disk.po < file.cvt
Since the CONVERT format includes a filename and other ProDOS atributes as part of the specification, there's no need to add anything more on the command line. If you like to do things by hand, though, you can achieve the same result this way: 

java ac.jar -p disk.po foo GEO < file.cvt
Again, since the CONVERT spec includes all of the ProDOS attributes, the filename (foo) and filetype (GEO/0x82) are actually overwritten and/or ignored as part of the process. But the presence of GEO as filetype is the thing that triggers the special GEOS handling.