PAR(1) DragonFly User's Manual PAR(1)NAMEpar - Quake pak archiving utility
SYNOPSISpar-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 success‐
fully.
-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 success‐
fully.
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 ALSOqstat(1)Version 0.03.01 2004-08-06 PAR(1)
