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authorB. Watson <urchlay@slackware.uk>2025-11-29 01:02:02 -0500
committerB. Watson <urchlay@slackware.uk>2025-11-29 01:02:02 -0500
commit3340301b02ae647cdb286112c32772bda0faf503 (patch)
tree6847f4f17dee95c5801e3e80607f2c1f6c1f983c /src/alf.1
parent0861fc6fc6614084bad79db36eeae4eefd75ff9e (diff)
downloadalftools-3340301b02ae647cdb286112c32772bda0faf503.tar.gz
unalf: actually use timestamps from the alf header (and add -T option to not use them).
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@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ level margin: \\n[rst2man-indent\\n[rst2man-indent-level]]
.\" new: \\n[rst2man-indent\\n[rst2man-indent-level]]
.in \\n[rst2man-indent\\n[rst2man-indent-level]]u
..
-.TH "ALF" 1 "2025-11-28" "0.2.0" "Urchlay's Atari 8-bit Tools"
+.TH "ALF" 1 "2025-11-29" "0.2.0" "Urchlay's Atari 8-bit Tools"
.SH NAME
alf \- create Atari 8-bit ALF archives
.\" RST source for alf(1) man page. Convert with:
@@ -151,6 +151,12 @@ systems, so there\(aqs no option for that.
Note that \fBalf\fP is a complete reverse\-engineered rewrite in C, \fInot\fP
a port of the original 6502 code as \fBunalf\fP is. It\(aqs still being
tested, and may still contain bugs.
+.sp
+A note about the Atari filenames: \fBDZ.COM\fP is sometimes found on
+old disk images as \fBUNALF.COM\fP, and \fBLZ.COM\fP is sometimes called
+\fBALF.COM\fP or \fBALFER.COM\fP\&. I\(aqve used the original names partly
+out of respect for the original author, and partly to avoid confusion
+between my \fBalf\fP/\fBunalf\fP and his Atari ones.
.SS File Size Limits
.sp
\fBalf\fP (and \fBLZ.COM\fP) have a 16MB file size limit. \fBuanlf\fP