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textpack(1)		     General Commands Manual		     textpack(1)

NAME
     textpack - Pack and unpack Flex files containing text

SYNOPSIS
     textpack -c FLEXFILE [TEXTFILE]

     textpack -x FLEXFILE [TEXTFILE]

DESCRIPTION
     Text Flex files are used for the storage of strings by the games Exult sup-
     ports.  While  expack(1)  can operate on such files, using textpack to pack
     and unpack them is more comfortable.

     The first parameter determines the mode of operation, -c  stands  for  cre-
     ation, -x for extraction.

   Creation
     TEXTFILE  (or  stdin if it is missing) is read and must conform to the file
     format (see below).  FLEXFILE will be created containing the  strings  from
     this input.

   Extraction
     The strings contained in FLEXFILE are extracted and written to TEXTFILE (if
     given, stdout otherwise) in the file format documented below.

   File Format
     Empty  lines,  and  lines starting with a pound sign (#) are ignored. Other
     lines must begin with a number, followed by a colon (:).  The number is the
     index of the string and may be given either in decimal, in  octal	prefixed
     with  0;  or in hexadecimal prefixed with 0x.  Anything following the colon
     belongs to the string and gets stored in the Flex verbatim. Lines are  lim-
     ited in length to 1024 characters.

EXAMPLES
     textpack -x text.flx
	    Writes all the strings contained in text.flx to stdout in the format
	    discussed above.

     textpack -c text.flx strings.list
	    Reads strings.list and puts its contents into the Flex file text.flx

   Example text file
     # An example
     0:the zeroth string
     # strings may be empty
     1:
     # holes are allowed, strings 2 to 16 will be empty
     17:string seventeen
     # 13 hexadecimal == 19 decimal, 24 octal == 20 decimal
     0x13:nineteen
     024:twenty
     # numbers need not go up
     18:eighteen
     # this will overwrite the definition from above
     19:overwritten

AUTHOR
     This  manpage  was written by Robert Bihlmeyer. It may be freely redistrib-
     uted and modified under the terms of the GNU General Public License version
     2 or higher.

SEE ALSO
     expack(1), exult(6)

Exult				   2002-03-24			     textpack(1)

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