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PAR(1)                      DragonFly User's Manual                     PAR(1)

NAME

par - Quake pak archiving utility

SYNOPSIS

par -c | -l | -x [-fhtvV] archive [file list]

DESCRIPTION

Par is an archiving program which processes pak files used by Quake and QuakeII. A pak archive contains only the file names -- together with the path below id1 (QuakeI) and baseq2 (Quake2) -- and the file data. Neither access permissions nor time stamps are stored.

ACTIONS

One of the following actions must be specified: -c create a new archive -l list the contents of the specified archive -x extract files from the specified archive

OPTIONS

-f Force some actions, suppress error messages -h Display some helpful information on stdout and exit successfully. -t the files to process are specified in the files given by file list -v be more talkative -V Display version and compilation info on stdout and exit successfully.

RETURN VALUE

On success, 0 is returned. On error, a value >0 is returned.

ERRORS

1 a program bug has seen the light 2 the error is different from those explained above

EXAMPLES

Extract map base1.bsp from pak0.pak: par -xv pak0.pak maps/base1.bsp Create a list with the names of all maps from in pak0.pak: par -l pak0.pak | grep .bsp > list Extract the files specified in list: par -xvt pak0.pak list Create a new archive from these maps: par -cvt pak9.pak list Replace pak0.pak by an empty archive :-) par -cv pak0.pak

BUGS

Tell me!

AUTHOR

Steffen Solyga <solyga@absinth.net>

SEE ALSO

qstat(1) Version 0.03.01 2004-08-06 PAR(1)

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