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expack(1) General Commands Manual expack(1)

NAME

expack - manipulate Flex files

SYNOPSIS

expack -a FLEXFILE FILE...

expack -c FLEXFILE FILE...

expack -x FLEXFILE [INDEX]

expack -i MANIFEST

expack -l FLEXFILE

DESCRIPTION

expack is a command-line utility that lets you extract and create Flex files. Flex files are archives (which means that they act as containers for other files, somewhat like directories) used by Ultima 7 to store most of its data. Note that the names of the original files are not stored in the Flex — files are only retrievable by their index.

Modes of operation

--NOT IMPLEMENTED YET. FUTURE ENHANCEMENT-- This command adds one or more FILEs to the end of FLEXFILE.

This command takes one or more FILEs and bundles them into FLEXFILE, overwriting it in the process.

Lets you extract the files contained within FLEXFILE. If INDEX is given only the file at this position will be unpacked, otherwise all files are extracted. The created files will be named index.u7o.

Similar to "Create", this command creates FLEXFILE from a number of input files. However, "Input" takes the names of the input files from MANIFEST instead of the command line.

MANIFEST must be a list of file names, one per line. The first name is that of the Flex file that is to be created, the rest are the input files used in building it.

This command lists the contents of a FLEXFILE. It gives you the number of files contained within the Flex file, as well as the length of each file.

EXAMPLES

Adds bee.wav to the Flex file animals.flx.

Adds hamster.wav, snake.wav, and donkey.wav to the Flex file animals.flx.

Creates a new Flex file animals.flx containing duck.wav, cat.wav, cow.wav, and dog.wav.

Extracts the file at position 17fromtext.flxinto17.u7o.

Extracts all files from text.flx into files named 0.u7o, 1.u7o, 2.u7o, etc.

With wavlist reading:

jmsfx.flx
ant.wav
bee.wav
cat.wav

will create a new Flex file jmsfx.flx consisting of ant.wav, bee.wav, andcat.wav.

Lists the number and lenghts of files contained in text.flx.

BUGS

The "Add" command (-a) does not work yet.

AUTHOR

This manpage was written by Robert Bihlmeyer based on a text by Marc Winterrowd. It may be freely redistributed and modified under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 or higher.

2002-03-23 Exult