NAME

       expack - manipulate Flex files

SYNOPSIS

       expack -a FLEXFILE FILE...

       expack -c FLEXFILE FILE...

       expack -x FLEXFILE [INDEX]

       expack -i MANIFEST

       expack -l FLEXFILE

DESCRIPTION

       expack  is  a  command-line utility that lets you extract and create Flex files.  Flex files are archives
       (which means that they act as containers for other files, somewhat like directories) used by  Ultima  VII
       to  store  most of its data. Note that the names of the original files are not stored in the Flex — files
       are only retrievable by their index.

   Modes of operation
       -a Add --NOT IMPLEMENTED YET.  FUTURE ENHANCEMENT-- This command adds one or more FILEs  to  the  end  of
              FLEXFILE.

       -c Create
              This  command  takes  one  or  more  FILEs  and  bundles them into FLEXFILE, overwriting it in the
              process.

       -x Extract
              Lets you extract the files contained within FLEXFILE.  If INDEX is given only  the  file  at  this
              position  will  be  unpacked,  otherwise  all files are extracted. The created files will be named
              index.u7o.

       -i Input
              Similar to "Create", this command creates FLEXFILE from a number of input files. However,  "Input"
              takes the names of the input files from MANIFEST instead of the command line.

              MANIFEST  must be a list of file names, one per line. The first name is that of the Flex file that
              is to be created, the rest are the input files used in building it.

       -l List
              This command lists the contents of a FLEXFILE.  It gives you the number of files contained  within
              the Flex file, as well as the length of each file.

EXAMPLES

       expack -a animals.flx bee.wav
              Adds bee.wav to the Flex file animals.flx.

       expack -a animals.flx hamster.wav snake.wav donkey.wav
              Adds hamster.wav, snake.wav, and donkey.wav to the Flex file animals.flx.

       expack -c animals.flx duck.wav cat.wav cow.wav dog.wav
              Creates a new Flex file animals.flx containing duck.wav, cat.wav, cow.wav, and dog.wav.

       expack -x text.flx 17
              Extracts the file at position 17fromtext.flxinto17.u7o.

       expack -x text.flx
              Extracts all files from text.flx into files named 0.u7o, 1.u7o, 2.u7o, etc.

       expack -i wavlist
              With wavlist reading:

              jmsfx.flx
              ant.wav
              bee.wav
              cat.wav

              will create a new Flex file jmsfx.flx consisting of ant.wav, bee.wav, andcat.wav.

       expack -l text.flx
              Lists the number and lenghts of files contained in text.flx.

BUGS

       The "Add" command (-a) does not work yet.

AUTHOR

       This  manpage  was  written  by  Robert  Bihlmeyer  based  on a text by Marc Winterrowd. It may be freely
       redistributed and modified under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 or higher.

Exult                                              2002-03-23                                          expack(1)