infodump.1

.TH "infodump" 1 "November 1998" "Ztools 7.3.1"
.SH NAME
infodump \- data file dumper for infocom format game files
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B infodump
.RB "[ \-iamostgdf ]"
.RB "[\| " \-c
.IR n " \|]"
.RB "[\| " \-w
.IR n " \|]"
.RB "[\| " \-u
.IR file " \|]"
story-file
.RB "[\| story-file... \|]"
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B Infodump
is a program for displaying the contents of an Infocom format story file.
It works for V1 to V8 games, modulo the limitations listed below.
.SH OPTIONS
The following options are supported
.TP 6
.B \-i
Show game information in the story file header.
This is the default operation for \fBinfodump\fP:
if not switches are given, then only the header will be displayed.
.TP
.B \-a
Show abbreviations.
.TP
.B \-m
Show the data file map.
.TP
.B \-o
Display information about all objects defined in the story file.
.TP
.B \-t
Show the object tree, with names of contained objects displayed indented
from the name of the containing object.
.TP
.B \-g
Show the verb grammar.
.TP
.B \-d
Show the story dictionary
.TP
.B \-f
Enable all of the above options (-a, -m, -o, -t, -g and -d)
.TP
.B \-s
Display Inform symbolic names in object and grammar displays.
.TP
.B \-c \fIn\fP
The numbers of columns to use when displaying the dictionary.
.TP
.B \-w \fIn\fP
Specifies the display width, used to determine where to word wrap.
If \fIn\fP is 0, then no wrapping will be performed.
.TP
.B \-u \fIfile\fP
Display symbols from file in object and grammar displays.
Use of this option implies -s.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR check (1),
.BR inforead (1),
.BR pix2gif (1),
.BR txd (1)
.SH AUTHOR
Mark Howell 28 August 1992 howell_ma@movies.enet.dec.com
.SH CURRENT MAINTAINER
Matthew Russotto russotto@pond.com
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