RSRCE(1)							 Debian GNU/Linux							  RSRCE(1)

NAME

       rsrce - editor for raw MacOS resource forks

SYNOPSIS

       rsrce [-e] [-f script] [-o output-file] [input-file]

DESCRIPTION

       Rsrce  is a command driven Macintosh resource fork editor for Unix-like operating systems.  It works with raw resource forks stored in Unix
       files, such as the .rsrc files produced by the macutil package.

       Rsrce doesn't allow you to edit the resource data directly.  It only knows to import/export them from/to files, performing  conversion  for
       the few resource types it knows.

OPTIONS

       -e     When  this  option is given, the failure of an editor command will cause rsrce to quit immediately with a non-zero exit status. This
	      is similar to the -e option to /bin/sh.

       -f script
	      Instructs rsrce to read its commands from the given script, instead of using the standard input.

       -o output-file
	      Specifies a default output file for the writecommand.  Useful when calling rsrce scripts which save their changes with a write  com-
	      mand without a filename.

       If  an  input-file is specified, it is loaded before rsrce starts reading commands, and is used as the default output file if the -o option
       has not been given.

USAGE

       Rsrce reads commands from the standard input.  Unquoted whitespace is ignored, except for the purpose of separating arguments.  Empty lines
       are  ignored,  and  a  # at a position where an argument would have started indicates a comment which extends to the end of the line.  Text
       within single quotes is used as-is.  An unquoted backslash can be used the way it works in C strings, or to force literal interpretation of
       the following character.

       Resources  are referred to by specifing their type and id, separated by a colon.  I mean, something like "STR#:128".  If the given type has
       less than 4 letters, spaces are added to complete it.

       The following commands are available:

       read [file]
	      read the resources from file

       write [file]
	      write the resources to file

       create resource
	      create a new, empty resource with the given type and id

       delete resource
	      remove the specified resource

       rename resource new-name
	      change the name associated with resource to new-name

       chattr resource attr-spec
	      change the attributes of resource according to attr-spec

       ls     list each resource's type, id, attributes, data lenght, and name

       hexdump resource
	      show an hexdump of resource's data

       import|export resource file [ext]
	      import/export resource's data from/to file.  The conversion which is performed depends on the extension of the given filename.  This
	      extenstion may be overriden by providing the extargument.

       edit resource[ext]
	      invoke an external editor to change resource's data

       help   list available commands

       exit   terminate rsrce (without saving, use write before exit if you wish to save your changes)

CONVERSION OF RESOURCE DATA

       When rsrce imports or exports resource data, a conversion can be performed depending on the resource type and the extension of the provided
       filename.

       The following extensions are known to rsrce:

       bin    causes no conversion, the raw resource data is used regardless of the resource type;

       txt    causes the resource data to be converted to plain text.  This is possible for STR, STR#andCMDLresources.

BUGS

       Rsrce has only been originally created to change the configuration of the miBoot Linux bootloader for OldWorld PowerMac computers.  Since I
       do  not	use MacOS, I haven't tested any other usage of this program.  You should therefore be very careful when using it, as it could very
       well produce unusable output.

       Another consequence of this is wildly missing functionnality.  I'm not going to work on it, since I couldn't test anything in a real situa-
       tion.  Patches and/or usage reports would be very welcome.

AUTHOR

       Jeremie Koenig <sprite@sprite.fr.eu.org>

SEE ALSO

       hfsutils(1), macutil(1)

Debian Project							    2004-03-26								  RSRCE(1)