.\" Copyright (C) 2005 International Business Machines.
.\" Common Public License Version 1.0 (see COPYRIGHT)
.\"
.\" Author(s)
.\"	Nathan Fontenot <nfont@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
.\"
.TH RTAS_DUMP 8 "May 2005" Linux "Linux on Power Service Tools"
.SH NAME
rtas_dump \- dump the contents of an RTAS event.
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B /usr/sbin/rtas_dump
[ options ]
.SH DESCRIPTION
The \fIrtas_dump\fR icommand is used to dump the contents of an RTAS event 
into a human readable form.  The tool is able to parse the contents of 
/var/log/messages, /var/log/platform and /var/log/boot.msg to extract dump 
the contents of RTAS events.  RTAS events can also be read in from a specified 
file or stdin.  The real work of de-coding RTAS events is handled by 
\fI/usr/sbin/rtas_event_decode\fR, the rtas_dump command simply parses the 
input and files and passes on the data to \fIrtas_event_decode\fR.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
\fB\-d\fR
debug flag, passed through to rtas_event_decode
.TP
\fB\-f\fI file\fR
dump the RTAS event(s) from \fIfile\fR 
.TP
\fB\-h\fI
print the usage message and exit
.TP
\fB\-n\fI num\fR
Only dump RTAS event number \fInum\fR
.TP
\fB\-v\fR
dump the entire contents of the RTAS event(s), not just the header
.TP
\fB\-w\fR
set the output character width
.SH AUTHOR
Nathan Fontenot <nfont@linux.vnet.ibm.com>