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is (1) too easily confused with Unix commands and (2) not a widely
used section heading in man pages.
Style:
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* Italicize file names.
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* Present operation and option letters in alphabetical order.
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font selection escape sequences.
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"Horizontal and vertical spacing" of groff_man(7).
* Replace use of *roff requests to break lines and vertically space with
calls of paragraphing macros, which is what they're for. Two things
the page author didn't know: `.sp 1` already implies a break, so the
preceding `.br` was redundant. `.sp 1` without an argument already
means to vertically space by 1 vee; that is, the "1" argument was
superfluous. It was a bad idea anyway because the default
inter-paragraph spacing in man(7) is not one vee, but 0.4v--this
matters when typesetting. It has also been the case since 1979.
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relative inset. Use of the macros is more idiomatic.
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family. These are extensions and are silently ignored by formatters
that don't support them.
groff_man(7):
.EX
.EE Begin and end example. After .EX, filling is disabled and a
constant‐width (monospaced) font is selected. Calling .EE
enables filling and restores the previous font.
.EX and .EE are extensions introduced in Ninth Edition Unix.
Documenter’s Workbench, Heirloom Doctools, and Plan 9
troffs, and mandoc (since 1.12.2) also support them.
Solaris troff does not. See subsection “Use of extensions”
in groff_man_style(7).
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.\" $NHDT-Branch: master $:$NHDT-Revision: 1.14 $ $NHDT-Date: 1735103831 2024/12/25 00:17:11 $
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.\"DO NOT REMOVE NH_DATESUB .TH DLB 6 "Date(%-d %B %Y)" Project(uc)
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.TH DLB 6 "25 December 2024" NETHACK
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.ds Nd 2024
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.de NB
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.de NR
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.NB $NHDT-Branch: keni-gitset $
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.NR $NHDT-Revision: 1.13 $
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.\" groff and AT&T-descended troffs use different hyphenation patterns.
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.\" Don't hyphenate the last word on a page or column, or
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.\" before/after last/first 2 characters of a word.
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.ie \n(.g .hy 12
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.el .hy 14
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.ds Na Kenneth Lorber
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.SH NAME
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dlb \- NetHack data librarian
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.B dlb
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.\" We'd use `RB` with 7 arguments, but Unix troff man(7) has a limit of
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.\" 6 arguments to its macros.
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{\c
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.BR c | t | x\c
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}\c
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.RB [ v ]\c
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.RB [ C
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.IR directory ]
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.RI [ file ]
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\&.\|.\|.
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.PP
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.B dlb
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{\c
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.BR c | t | x\c
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}\c
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.RB [ v ]\c
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.B I
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.IR list-file
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.PP
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.B dlb
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{\c
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.BR c | t | x\c
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}\c
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.RB [ v ]\c
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.RB [ f
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.IR archive-file-name ]
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.RI [ file ]
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\&.\|.\|.
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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.I Dlb
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is a file archiving tool in the spirit (and tradition) of
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.IR tar (1)
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for
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.IR nethack (6)
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version 3.1 and higher.
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It is used to maintain the
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archive files from which the game reads special level files and other
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read-only information.
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Note that like
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.IR tar ,
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the letters specifying the operation and options
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are expressed as a continuous string.
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Unlike
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.IR tar ,
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.I dlb
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is configured with a default set of file names to process.
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.ig
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.PP
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^?ALLDOCS
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This facility is optional and may be excluded during NetHack
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configuration.
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^:
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^?DLB
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This facility is optional but is included in this NetHack
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configuration.
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^:
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This facility is optional and was excluded from this NetHack
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configuration.
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^.
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^.
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..
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.SS Operations
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.B c
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causes
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.I dlb
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to create a new archive from files in the current directory.
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.PP
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.B t
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lists the files in the archive.
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.PP
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.B x
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causes
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.I dlb
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to extract the contents of the archive into the current directory.
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.SH OPTIONS
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.TP 13n \" "I list-file" + 2n
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.BI "C " dir
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Change directory to
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.I dir
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before trying to
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read any files.
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.TP
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.BI "f " archive
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Read from or write to
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.I archive
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instead of LIBFILE
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(usually the
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.I nhdat
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file in the playground).
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.TP
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.BI "I " list-file
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Read from
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.I list-file
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the names of files to emplace within or extract from the archive.
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The default for archive creation is LIBLISTFILE.
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.TP
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.B v
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Operate verbosely.
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.SH EXAMPLES
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Create the default archive from the default file list:
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.RS
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.EX
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dlb c
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.EE
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.RE
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.PP
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List the contents of the archive
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.IR foo :
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.RS
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.EX
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dlb tf foo
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.EE
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.RE
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.SH AUTHOR
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Kenneth Lorber
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
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.IR nethack (6),
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.IR tar (1)
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.SH BUGS
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.IP \(bu 2n
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Not a good
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.I tar
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emulation;
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.B -
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does not mean stdin or stdout.
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.IP \(bu
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Should include an optional compression facility.
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.IP \(bu
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Not all read-only files for NetHack can be read out of an archive;
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examining the source is the only way to know which files can be.
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.SH COPYRIGHT
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This file is Copyright (C) \*(Na, \*(Nd for version \*(Nb:\*(Nr.
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NetHack may be freely redistributed. See license for details.
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