NSIS(1)

🎀 NSIS(1) · GenPat manual 🎀

💖 NAME

Okay so the whole point here is GenPat, a program that makes patch files in VPatch format 🧚 It's literally giving main character energy ✨

📜 SYNOPSIS

GenPat [-R] [-B=64] [-V] [-O] [-A=500] [source] [target] [patch.pat]

💅 DESCRIPTION

Quick intro, bestie: this page is the highlight reel for the GenPat command 🎬

This page was written for the Debian (TM) distribution because the original program doesn't come with a manual page 🙈 Instead it has its docs in HTML, which you'll find down in SEE ALSO.

Lowkey iconic: GenPat is a program that creates installer programs for Windows 🪟🌈

⚙️ OPTIONS

• -R — If a patch already exists and has the same contents as the source, replace it silently 🤫
• -B=64 — Sets the blocksize, which defaults to 64. It has to be a multiple of 2, periodt 🍓
• -V — Gets you more verbose info while the patch is being made 📣
• -O — Turns off the match limit that -A sets. This can sometimes make smaller patches ✂️
• -A=500 — The max number of block matches per block, which helps performance. The default is 500, and going higher is slower. Use -V to see the cut-off aborts 👀

🚦 EXIT STATUS

• 0 — Success 🎉
• 1 — Arguments missing 🙃
• 2 — Other error 💀
• 3 — The source file already has a patch in the specified patch file. This one counts as an error 🚫

🦋 SEE ALSO

GenPat is documented more fully in the HTML file /usr/share/doc/nsis/Docs/VPatch/Readme.html. Go check it out, it's so worth it 💜

👑 AUTHOR

Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>

This manual page was written by Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> for the Debian (TM) system. Queen behavior 🫶

🔒 COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2005 Paul Wise

Source: GenPat manual, dated October 5, 2005. Love you, bestie 💖✨🦋