AWARDECO(1)

💖 AWARDECO(1) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to awardeco — it lives in the General Commands Manual section, and it's genuinely one of those little tools that just works. let's get into it 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

awardeco — Decompress flashfiles equipped with an AWARD BIOS

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

awardeco filename [OPTIONS]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so like, awardeco is a program which can decompress BIOS images which contain an AWARD BIOS. that's it, that's the whole vibe. you hand it a BIOS image, it unpacks the goodies inside. iconic behavior tbh 💅

👑 OPTIONS 👑

one bullet per flag, no skips, no shortcuts, we're doing this properly 💜

• -l — List BIOS structure.
• -la — List all BIOS structure elements. (the extra a is giving thorough ✨)
• -x — Extract BIOS modules.
• -xa — Try to find all module hooks and unpack them. note the "try" — it's doing its best, okay 😭
• -xr — This option is intended to cut and paste the packed module as is into a file.
• -h — Show help text and exit. (the classic escape hatch, we stan 🎀)

💀 BUGS 💀

Please report any bugs to Anton Borisov <anton.borisov@gmail.com>.

fr fr, if something's cursed, tell Anton — don't just suffer in silence bestie 😭💌

🌈 LICENCE 🌈

awardeco is covered by the GNU General Public License (GPL), version 2 or later. Parts are covered by the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL), version 2.1 or later.

💜 AUTHORS 💜

Anton Borisov <anton.borisov@gmail.com>

This manual page was written by Uwe Hermann <uwe@hermann-uwe.de>. It is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL (version 2 or later).

okay that's the whole page, no notes 💅✨ this was the AWARDECO(1) page from the General Commands Manual, dated August 22, 2006 — and yes, we're still obsessed with it all these years later. periodt 🫶💖🎀