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| author | B. Watson <urchlay@slackware.uk> | 2025-11-18 06:57:14 -0500 |
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| committer | B. Watson <urchlay@slackware.uk> | 2025-11-18 06:57:14 -0500 |
| commit | ebfad791508af77f7f8e942c88a6f5dc88bd6d41 (patch) | |
| tree | c4414ef1e0fccc49c261dd5305dcdfb2feb53efc /src/alfsum.rst | |
| parent | 7ec4a5150710643e99f982b5a82f8aeb49302d81 (diff) | |
| download | unalf-ebfad791508af77f7f8e942c88a6f5dc88bd6d41.tar.gz | |
Improve alfsum usage a bit.
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1 files changed, 15 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/src/alfsum.rst b/src/alfsum.rst index 69d8f8f..cf9c7d3 100644 --- a/src/alfsum.rst +++ b/src/alfsum.rst @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ calculate ALF checksums SYNOPSIS ======== -alfsum **file** [**file** ...] +alfsum **file** [**file** ...] | [**--help** | **-h**] | [**--version** | **-V**] DESCRIPTION =========== @@ -29,8 +29,19 @@ DESCRIPTION **alfsum** calculates the checksums used by the **ALF** compression utility on the Atari 8-bit platform. -There are no options. Use **-** to read from standard input. Use -**./-file** to read a file whose name begins with **-**. +To read from standard input, use **-** as a filename + +Output lines have a tab separating the checksum and filename, for ease +of scripting (e.g. with **cut**\(1) or **awk**\(1)). + +OPTIONS +======= + +-h, --help + Show built-in help message. + +-V, --version + Show **alfsum** version number and exit. NOTES ===== @@ -48,7 +59,7 @@ EXIT STATUS File I/O error count. If there are more than 254 I/O errors, 254 is returned. 255 - Error in command-line arguments. + Error in command-line arguments: no filenames given. COPYRIGHT ========= |