NAME

       dasdcopy - copy a DASD file to another DASD file

SYNOPSIS

       dasdcopy  [-v] [-h] [-q] [-r] [-z] [-bz2] [-0] [-a] [-lfs] [-blks n] [-cyls n] [-o type] ifile [sf=sfile]
       ofile

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents the dasdcopy program.

       dasdcopy copies a DASD file to another DASD file.

PARAMETERS

       ifile     input FBA DASD file

       sfile     input compressed FBA shadow file (optional)

       ofile     output compressed FBA DASD file

OPTIONS

       -v        display program version and quit

       -h        display help and quit

       -q        quiet mode, don't display status

       -r        replace the output file if it exists

       -blks n   size of output FBA file

       -cyls n   size of output CKD file

       -z        compress using output zlib [default]

       -bz2      compress using output bzip2

       -0        don't compress output

       -a        output ckd file will have alternate cylinders

       -lfs      output ckd file will be a single file even if it exceeds 2GB in size

       -o type   output file type (CKD, CCKD, FBA, CFBA)

SEE ALSO

       The programs are documented fully by  The  Hercules  System/370,  ESA/390,  and  z/Architecture  Emulator
       available in /usr/share/doc/hercules/html.

AUTHOR

       Hercules  was  created  by  Roger  Bowler  and  is  maintained  by  Jay  Maynard. Jan Jaeger designed and
       implemented many of the advanced features of  Hercules,  including  dynamic  reconfiguration,  integrated
       console, interpretive execution, and z/Architecture support.

       This manual page was written by Peter De Schrijver p2@debian.org for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may
       be used by others).  Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or  modify  this  document  under  the
       terms of the GPL.

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