09-11-2011
If you're copying a string, better to use strdup(). You won't make that off-by-one mistake that way.
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unmass
UNMASS(1) General Commands Manual UNMASS(1)
NAME
unmass - extract game archive files
SYNOPSIS
unmass [options] file
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the unmass command.
unmass is a tool to extract game archives. It supports the following archive types: Crismon Land, Baldur's Gate 2, Civilization 4, Doom
(WADs), Dune 2, Etherlords 2, Final Fantasy 7 and 8, Flashpoint, Knights of Xentar, Metal Gear Solid (DARs), Moorhuhn 2 and 3, Megaman Leg-
ends, Oni, Operation Flashpoint, Princess Maker 2, Quake 1, RollCage, Swine, Unreal Tournament umods, Virtua Fighter bitmaps, MEA exe's,
some economy file format.
OPTIONS
-h, --help
Show summary of options.
-e <archive file> <file name> [...<file name>]
Opens the archive and extract files.
--modules
Prints out list of modules for archive loading.
--list <archive file>
Opens the archive and prints list of the files inside.
EXAMPLES
Display list of files contained inside archive 'battle.lgp'
unmass -list battle.lgp
Opens 'battle.lgp' and extracts file 'aabc.txt' and all files ending
with 'dat' into current directory
unmass -e battle.lgp aabc.txt *dat
SEE ALSO
pak(1).
AUTHOR
unmass was written by Miro Janosik.
This manual page was written by Gurkan Sengun <gurkan@phys.ethz.ch>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).
July 9, 2007 UNMASS(1)