textpack - Pack and unpack Flex files containing text

       This manpage was written by Robert Bihlmeyer. It may be freely redistributed and modified under the terms
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       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.

   CreationTEXTFILE (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.

   FileFormat
       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.

textpack-xtext.flx
              Writes all the strings contained in text.flx to stdout in the format discussed above.

       textpack-ctext.flxstrings.list
              Reads strings.list and puts its contents into the Flex file text.flxExampletextfile
       # 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

       textpack - Pack and unpack Flex files containing text

expack(1), exult(6)

Exult                                              2002-03-24                                        textpack(1)

textpack-cFLEXFILE [TEXTFILE]

       textpack-xFLEXFILE [TEXTFILE]