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left unspecified. `fluxengine read ibm` on its own will read drive 0 and
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write an `ibm.img` file.
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## Visualisation
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When doing a read (either from a real disk or from a flux file) you can use
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`--write-svg=output.svg` to write out a graphical visualisation of where the
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sectors are on the disk. Here's a IBM PC 1232kB disk:
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Blue represents data, light blue a header, and red is a bad sector. Side zero
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is on the left and side one is on the right.
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The visualiser is extremely primitive and you have to explicitly tell it how
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big your disk is, in milliseconds. The default is 200ms (for a normal 3.5"
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disk). For a 5.25" disk, use `--visualiser-period=166`.
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## Extra programs
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Supplied with FluxEngine, but not part of FluxEngine, are some little tools I
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