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application has been developed to convert DAA files to ISO files. The program comes with a Windows binary and source code which compiles under Unix-like operating systems. daa2iso allows users to select the .daa file, and the location for the .iso output via standard windows open and save dialogs
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Convention: Any item in this table that has the form of "A+B" or "A+B+C" indicates a disk format that spans multiple files, where A contains the bulk of the data, and B and C are
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Due to using freely available compression algorithms, DAA includes the following features that are absent in ISO (but can be obtained by manually compressing ISO files):
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is a free CD/DVD management application for Linux that can convert DAA to ISO with the help of the external PowerISO command-line tool for Linux.
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files. The format supports features such as compression, password protection, and splitting to multiple volumes. Popular Windows disk image
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Currently there is no published information about the format. Among mainstream applications, it can be opened or converted with
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trial version only supports converting images from DAA files up to 300MB, less than half of the capacity of a standard
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currently do not support the mounting of DAA images; Linux and BSD also do not support mounting images of this kind.
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format, however these tools have not been updated to support the newest version of the DAA format. The PowerISO
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is a GUI application which wraps the daa2iso command-line tool (GNU license).
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Ability to compress images, thus saving space and allowing smaller downloads
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which allow the user to extract DAA files or convert them into
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Although lacking official documentation, DAA image files are
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Filename extension
Disk image
disk image
mounting
Alcohol 120%
Daemon Tools
MagicISO
UltraISO
zlib
lzma
ISO images
Linux
Mac OS X
ISO
Windows
CD
AcetoneISO
command line
http://aluigi.altervista.org/mytoolz.htm#daa2iso
"PowerISO - Create, Edit, Extract, Mount, Compress, Encrypt, Split ISO file, ISO/BIN converter, Virtual Drive, DAA"
the original
daa2iso application for Windows
DAA Converter for Mac OS X
PowerISO Website
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file formats
Comparison of disc image software

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