pdixtract: A Tool to Convert .PDI Disk Images to .ISO

[WiseWeasel]

If anyone is interested, I've compiled pdixtract (link to source code and Windows executable) for MacOS X, a command line tool which is capable of converting .pdi image files to .iso images Toast and Disk Utility can use. I've put it up on my iDisk here (8K .zip archive).

To install it, do the following:
1) Unzip the archive

2) launch the terminal, and type:

chmod 755

(put a space after the number), then drag the 'pdixtract' file to the terminal window, and hit enter.

3) Still in the terminal, type:

sudo ditto

then put a space after 'ditto', and drag the pdixtract file onto the terminal window, and then type:

/usr/bin

, and then hit enter. You will be prompted for the admin password, then hit enter, and it should be copied to your /usr/bin directory, allowing you to launch it by simply typing 'pdixtract' in the terminal.

To use it, type:

pdixtract -i /path/to/output/image.iso

(an example of a path to use would be ~/movies/image.iso to save the image as "image.iso" in your Movies folder in your home directory), make sure you have a space after ".iso ", then drag your image.pdi file onto the terminal, and hit enter. The final line should look like this:

pdixtract -i /path/to/output/image.iso /path/to/input/image.pdi

Let me know if this works, as I don't have any pdi files to test with...
Props to Childs for the tip.

[MikieV]

If anyone is interested, I've compiled pdixtract (link to source code and Windows executable) for MacOS X, a command line tool which is capable of converting .pdi image files to .iso images Toast and Disk Utility can use. I've put it up on my iDisk here (8K .zip archive).

- EDIT-

Let me know if this works, as I don't have any pdi files to test with...
Props to Childs for the tip.

Thanks for doing the "leg-work" on this.

After reading Child's post, I did a Google search, from work, and all I could find (in English) was some PC-centric sites with links to zipped "PDITools" and "PDIextract - a part of PDITools". No clue if they were PC-only code/executables - or where the original files were from.

No way in H___ I was going to download that stuff on a company PC.

Mike

[WiseWeasel]

The zipped pditools and pdixtract files all over the place are distributed as Windows executables, but fortunately, along with the source code, which is apparently platform-agnostic enough to compile in OS X and run just fine on a Mac. The first link I posted in the above post goes to the original source of those files, I think. There doesn't appear to be any sort of website for them. The GUI for it is for Windows, but the command-line tool works on the Mac. A simple GUI could quite easily be made for this, but I'm not quite there yet, as far as skill level. For now, it would be nice to know if the command-line tool works as it's supposed to.