expack - manipulate Flex files
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Bugs
The "Add" command (-a) does not work yet.
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 UltimaVII
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.
Modesofoperation-a Add --NOT IMPLEMENTED YET. FUTURE ENHANCEMENT-- This command adds one or more FILEs to the end of
FLEXFILE.
-c Create
This command takes one or more FILEs and bundles them into FLEXFILE, overwriting it in the
process.
-x Extract
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.
-i Input
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.
-l List
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
expack-aanimals.flxbee.wav
Adds bee.wav to the Flex file animals.flx.
expack-aanimals.flxhamster.wavsnake.wavdonkey.wav
Adds hamster.wav, snake.wav, and donkey.wav to the Flex file animals.flx.
expack-canimals.flxduck.wavcat.wavcow.wavdog.wav
Creates a new Flex file animals.flx containing duck.wav, cat.wav, cow.wav, and dog.wav.
expack-xtext.flx17
Extracts the file at position 17fromtext.flxinto17.u7o.
expack-xtext.flx
Extracts all files from text.flx into files named 0.u7o, 1.u7o, 2.u7o, etc.
expack-iwavlist
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.
expack-ltext.flx
Lists the number and lenghts of files contained in text.flx.
Name
expack - manipulate Flex files
Synopsis
expack-aFLEXFILEFILE...
expack-cFLEXFILEFILE...
expack-xFLEXFILE [INDEX]
expack-iMANIFESTexpack-lFLEXFILE