expack(1)

NAME
expack - manipulate Flex files

SYNOPSIS
expack -a FLEXFILE FILE...

expack -c FLEXFILE FILE...

expack -x FLEXFILE [INDEX]

expack -i MANIFEST

expack -l FLEXFILE

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 Ultima VII 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.

  Modes of operation

-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 -a animals.flx bee.wav
    Adds bee.wav to the Flex file animals.flx.

expack -a animals.flx hamster.wav snake.wav donkey.wav
    Adds hamster.wav, snake.wav, and donkey.wav to the Flex file animals.flx.

expack -c animals.flx duck.wav cat.wav cow.wav dog.wav
    Creates a new Flex file animals.flx containing duck.wav, cat.wav, cow.wav, and dog.wav.

expack -x text.flx 17
    Extracts the file at position 17fromtext.flxinto17.u7o.

expack -x text.flx
    Extracts all files from text.flx into files named 0.u7o, 1.u7o, 2.u7o, etc.

expack -i wavlist
    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 -l text.flx
    Lists the number and lenghts of files contained in text.flx.

BUGS
The "Add" command (-a) does not work yet.

AUTHOR
This manpage was written by Robert Bihlmeyer based on a text by Marc Winterrowd. It may be freely redistributed and modified under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 or higher.