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NAME

       chdman - MAME Compressed Hunks of Data (CHD) manager

SYNOPSIS

       chdman option file

DESCRIPTION

       chdman  is  the  (C)ompressed (H)unks of (D)ata (CHD) manager for MAME.
       It is a tool to manage CHD images.

OPTIONS

       -info input.chd
              Dump the header information from a drive image.

       -createraw inputhd.raw output.chd [inputoffs [hunksize]]
              Create a new compressed raw image from a raw file.

       -createhd inputhd.raw output.chd [inputoffs  [cylinders  heads  sectors
       [sectorsize [hunksize]]]]
              Create a new compressed hard disk image from a raw file.

       -createblankhd   output.chd   cylinders   heads   sectors   [sectorsize
       [hunksize]]
              Create a new non-compressed hard  disk  image,  with  all  hunks
              filled with 0s.

       -createcd input.toc output.chd
              Create a new compressed CD image from a raw file.

       -copydata input.chd output.chd
              Copy  all  hunks  of data from one CHD file to another. The hunk
              sizes do not need to match.  If the source is shorter  than  the
              destination, the source data will be padded with 0s.

       -extract input.chd output.raw
              Extract a raw file from a CHD image.

       -extractcd input.chd output.toc output.bin
              Extract a CDRDAO .toc/.bin file from a CHD-CD image.

       -verify input.chd
              Validate the MD5/SHA1 on a drive image.

       -verifyfix input.chd
              Validate and fix the MD5/SHA1 on a drive image.

       -update input.chd output.chd
              Update CHD image using metadata from input file.

       -chomp input.chd output.chd maxhunk
              Chomp hunk from CHD image.

       -merge parent.chd diff.chd output.chd
              Merge a parent and its child together.

       -diff parent.chd compare.chd diff.chd
              Generate a difference between two CHD files.

       -setchs inout.chd cylinders heads sections
              Change the CHS values on a hard disk image.

       -split input.chd output.chd length
              Split a CHD file into multiple parts.