Re: Batch file extract from disk images?

[Andy McFadden <fadden@fadden.com>]

schmidtd <schmidtd@my-deja.com> wrote:
> I could swear I've done this before with FishWings or AppleCommnder,
> but I'm not immediately seeing how now.  I want to point a batch
> processor at a big pile of disk images and extract files; typically
> text and BASIC.  CiderPress is perfect at it, but of course I can only
> do one disk at a time, and requires pointing and clicking.  What
> options are there for batch file extraction?

If you're willing to write code in C++, you can do it with the diskimg
library.  See the "getfile" and "mdc" implementations in the "linux"
directory.  You could also script up "mdc" and "getfile" into some awful
processing system, but neither program was really meant for that.

My hope is that releasing the disk image library with some sample code
will allow people to write useful command-line tools for Linux, such as
batch extractors.  C/C++ may not be the best language here though.
Anybody want to figure out Python bindings? :-)

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