---
name: "xdms"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "xdms"
version: "1.3.2-7"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/xdms"
---

# xdms(1)

decompressing Amiga DMS files

## NAME

xdms - decompressing Amiga DMS files

## SYNOPSIS

**xdms** \[-d destdir\] \[-p passwd\] \[-q\] \[-v\] \<command\> dmsfile \[outputfile\]\
 Commands:

- **xdms u**

  Unpack file

- **xdms b**

  Show attached banner

- **xdms d**

  Show attached FILEID.DIZ

- **xdms f**

  View full image information

- **xdms t**

  Test archive

- **xdms v**

  View DMS archive information

- **xdms x**

  Extract files inside DMS archives using readdisk

- **xdms z**

  Unpack to disk image and compress with gzip\

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the **xdms** command.

**xdms** is a tool for decompressing Amiga DMS files. DMS files contain disk images that are these days mainly useful for Amiga emulation. It can unpack DMS images to ADF images.

## OPTIONS

- **-d destdir**

  Unpack to a separate destination directory.

- **-f**

  Override errors. Useful for desperate data salvaging.

- **-p passwd**

  Decrypt with a password.

- **-q**

  Be quiet.

- **-v**

  Be verbose.

## Examples

To unpack a DMS file, do:

- xdms u foo.dms

  ## BUGS

Maybe.\

## SEE ALSO

**amigadepacker**(1), [**lha**(1)](/lha/1.md), **ppcrack**(1), [**uae**(1)](/uae/1.md). [**unadf**(1)](/unadf/1.md), **unlzx**(1), **xPK**(1)\

## AUTHOR

xdms was written by Andre' Rodrigues de la Rocha, but now hosted and maintained by Heikki Orsila \<heikki.orsila@iki.fi\>.

This manual page was written by Gürkan Sengün \<gurkan@linuks.mine.nu\>, for the Debian project, and Heikki Orsila \<heikki.orsila@iki.fi\>.