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NAME
       empdump - Export/import Empire game state

SYNOPSIS
       empdump [-chmnvx] [-e configfile] [-i dump-file]

DESCRIPTION
       empdump exports and imports game state as plain text.

OPTIONS
       -c     Use complete export format: don't omit data import doesn't need.

       -e configfile
              Use game configuration in configfile.

       -h     Help.  Print brief usage information and exit.

       -i dump-file
              Import from dump-file.

       -m     Use machine-readable format for export.  Import always
              recognizes both machine-readable and human-readable format.

       -n     Dry run, don't actually update game state on import.

       -v     Print version information and exit.

       -x     Export game state to standard output.

LIMITATIONS
       empdump can't export player bmaps, power report, telegrams,
       announcements, message of the day, no-login message and log files.
       Exported floating-point values may be inexact.  Importing an exported
       game state may not result in identical data files; besides the loss of
       floating-point precision just mentioned, coordinates are normalized,
       and characters beyond a string's terminating zero in a character array
       are lost.

SEE ALSO
       emp_server(6).

AUTHOR
       Markus Armbruster <armbru@pond.sub.org>

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