MBK_OUT_FILTER(1)

🌸 MBK_OUT_FILTER(1) — bestie, it’s giving filter vibes 🌸

Okay so this is MBK_OUT_FILTER(1), straight from the MBK ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES manual, and we’re about to make environment-variable lore make sense. 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

MBK_OUT_FILTER — define the input filter. Yes, that’s the exact NAME wording, bestie — the DESCRIPTION is where the output-filter business shows up. Keep both in your brain, no cap. 💅

🧚 ORIGIN 🧚

This software belongs to the ALLIANCE CAD SYSTEM developed by the ASIM team at LIP6 laboratory of Université Pierre et Marie CURIE, in Paris, France. Periodt. 🇫🇷✨

• Web: http://asim.lip6.fr/recherche/alliance/
• E-mail: alliance-users@asim.lip6.fr

🔥 DESCRIPTION 🔥

MBK_OUT_FILTER sets the output filter for writing compressed Alliance files. The filter is typically a string containing filename and options. 🎀

This filter must read the non compressed data flow on its standard input and write the compressed data flow on its standard output. Literally its whole main character job. 💫

Now for the dramatic part: if a non compressed version of a file exists in the same target directory and the designer wants to save a file’s compressed version, then — to ensure that file will be read later and not the non compressed one — the non compressed file is DELETED. Not me being loud about it; that’s just the rule. 😭💀

To activate filters, variable MBK_FILTER_SFX must be set. No set, no filter party. 🪩

🦋 EXAMPLE 🦋

Writing compressed files with gzip, iconic behavior:

setenv MBK_OUT_FILTER "/asim/gnu/bin/gzip -c"
setenv MBK_FILTER_SFX ".gz"

Exact commands, exact strings, exact little environment-variable slay. 💖

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• mbk(3)
• MBK_FILTER_SFX(1)
• MBK_IN_FILTER(1)
• mbkenv(1)

iykyk — go read the whole friend group. 🌈⭐

🍓 BUG REPORT 🍓

This tool is under development at the ASIM department of the LIP6 laboratory.

We need your feedback to improve documentation and tools.

Fr fr, they’re asking nicely — send the feedback, help the docs eat. 🫶💌

xoxo, ASIM/LIP6 — October 1, 1999 — signing off from page MBK_OUT_FILTER(1) 💋🎀