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@@ -41,9 +41,17 @@ Without *infile*, or if *infile* is **-**, **a8xd** reads from standard input. OPTIONS ======= +-a + ANTIC mode: treat the input as screen bytes. Can usefully be combined + with **-g**. + -i Print XL/XE International Character Set conversions instead of ATASCII. +-g + Graphics mode. Changes the colorization so it looks like *GRAPHICS 1* (or 2) + on the Atari. + -l *len* Stop after dumping *len* bytes. *len* may be given in decimal or hex (with leading *0x* or *$*). @@ -84,6 +92,23 @@ OPTIONS NOTES ===== +**a8xd** requires the terminal emulator to support UTF-8 and use a +font with the necessary glyphs. The author has tested extensively +with **urxvt**\(1) (aka **rxvt-unicode**) and **xterm**\(1), using +the *Deja Vu Sans Mono*, *JetBrains Mono*, *Liberation Mono*, +and *Symbola* fonts. Also **kitty**\(1), **xfce4-terminal**\(1), +KDE/Plasma 5's **konsole**\(1), **gnome-terminal**\(1) 3.43.90, and +**st**\(1) from suckless.org have been lightly tested and seem to work +fine. Even the Linux console works, except that you won't be able to +find a console font with all the necessary glyphs (I may create one +someday). + +**a8xd** only supports terminals that use ANSI-style escape sequences +for color and inverse video. This isn't much of a limitation, since +all modern X, Wayland, Mac, etc terminal emulators have support for +this... but it might annoy you if you're trying to use an Atari ST +with a VT52 emulator as a serial terminal. Sorry. + **a8xd** supports a useful subset of **xxd**\(1) options. The main things missing are: |