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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
       supports. 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
       creation, -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 limited 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
       redistributed 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)