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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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.\"DO NOT REMOVE NH_DATESUB .ds Nd Date(%Y)
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.ds Nd 2024
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.de NB
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.ds Nb \\$2
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..
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.de NR
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.ds Nr \\$2
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..
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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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.I 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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.\" All troffs and nroffs support `\(co` except Plan 9 nroff, but Plan 9
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.\" offers no test for special character availability, and its feature
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.\" set too closely resembles DWB 3.3 to test for it. Use a string with
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.\" any nroff-mode formatter not claiming groff compatiblity.
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.ds co \(co
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.if !\n(.g .if n .ds co (C)\" in principle, should be just "c"
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This file is Copyright \*(co \*(Na, \*(Nd for version \*(Nb:\*(Nr.
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NetHack may be freely redistributed.
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See license for details.
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