TRS-80 Emulators for Windows and MS-DOS

Matthew Reed's emulators, utilities, and development tools for TRS-80 Models I/III/4

TRSREAD & TRSWRITE for Windows — Freeware Utilities to Manipulate TRS-80 Disk Images

TRSREAD and TRSWRITE are command line utilities that can manipulate TRS-80 virtual disk images. They perform many of the same functions as TRSTools, but are good for batch operations because they operate on the Windows command line. (Note: these are Windows console mode programs, NOT MS-DOS programs.)

TRSREAD.EXE

TRSREAD.EXE is a command line Windows program that reads selected files from TRS-80 virtual disk files and transfers them into the current directory. The TRSREAD command line looks like this:

TRSREAD [options] virtual disk [files]

The [options] and [files] on the command line are optional. Possible options are:

-s Include system files
-i Include invisible files
-e Extract files from virtual disk
-v Display directory of virtual disk (default)
-o Always overwrite files

For example, to see the directory of SAMPLE.DSK, the command line would look like this:

TRSREAD SAMPLE.DSK

You don’t actually have to use the -v option, because it is the default. However, if you would prefer, you could also use this command line to accomplish the same thing:

TRSREAD -v SAMPLE.DSK

To extract all files from SAMPLE.DSK that begin with the letter S, including invisible and system files, the command line would look like this (notice the use of wildcards):

TRSREAD -e -i -s SAMPLE.DSK S*.*

To extract the visible, non-system files LETTER1/TXT, LETTER2/TXT, and ADDRESS/TXT from SAMPLE.DSK, the command line would look like this:

TRSREAD -e SAMPLE.DSK LETTER1/TXT LETTER2/TXT ADDRESS/TXT

To extract all visible, non-system files from SAMPLE.DSK while overwriting any identically named files, the command line would look like this:

TRSREAD -o -e SAMPLE.DSK *.*

Note that when files are extracted from TRS-80 virtual disk files, the resulting files are always copied into the current directory.

TRSWRITE.EXE

TRSWRITE.EXE is a command line Windows program that copies files onto TRS-80 virtual disk files. The TRSWRITE command line looks like this:

TRSWRITE [option] virtual disk file or wildcard

There is only one option:

-o Always overwrite files

For example, to copy the Windows file LETTER1.TXT onto the virtual disk file SAMPLE.DSK, the command line would look like this:

TRSWRITE SAMPLE.DSK LETTER1.TXT

To copy all files starting with B and with a .DOC extension onto SAMPLE.DSK without querying when overwriting a file, the command line would look like this:

TRSWRITE -o SAMPLE.DSK B.DOC*

To copy the files LETTER1.TXT, LETTER2.TXT, and ADDRESS.TXT into SAMPLE.DSK would require three command lines:

TRSWRITE SAMPLE.DSK LETTER1.TXT
TRSWRITE SAMPLE.DSK LETTER2.TXT
TRSWRITE SAMPLE.DSK ADDRESS.TXT

Note

TRSREAD and TRSWRITE are freeware, but remember that they are not public domain software. All copyrights connected with the program and its accompanying document files remain with me (Matthew Reed).