BNIBUILD(1)

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💖 BNIBUILD(1) — BNETD User's Manual 💖

okay bestie, gather round, because we're about to talk about bnibuild, and she is literally the most unbothered little icon-wrangler in the whole BNETD family 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

bnibuild — build a Battle.net icon file from a directory of Targa icon files 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

bnibuild [options] [--] inputdir [bnifile]

that's it. that's the whole vibe. inputdir goes in, icon file comes out 💅

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

so like, bnibuild is a simple program — and when I say simple I mean she does one thing and she does it flawlessly — that converts a directory into a single Battle.net icon file. 🧚

but here's the tea: that directory can't just be any old folder. It needs a text file named bniindex.lst living in it, plus the associated Targa image files. Give her those and she'll smoosh them all together into one Battle.net icon file. ✨

and if you don't specify bnifile at all? or if you specify it as -? she just writes to standard output instead. lowkey iconic, highkey convenient. 🫶

FIXME: specify format of bniindex.lst

(yes that's literally in the original, bestie, we don't know the format either, it's giving mystery 🕵️♀️)

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • -h, --help, --usage — prints the usage info and dips. that's it, that's the whole job. 👋
  • -v, --version — prints her version number and exits. she's not being mysterious, she's just done talking. 💁♀️
  • -- — signals the end of options. any argument after this gets treated as a filename, even if it starts with a -. so if your file is literally named -weird, this is your girl. 😌

📝 NOTES 📝

the current version is available with the bnetd distribution at:

http://www.bnetd.org/

go get it, she's right there 🦋

💀 BUGS 💀

okay so real talk, some of the fields in the BNI format? we don't actually know what they're for. the purpose of some of them is just... not known. it's giving archaeological dig. 🙈

also — and this is important — only true-color formats are currently supported. so don't come at her with anything else, she will simply not. 😭

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

the whole squad fr fr 👑

👑 AUTHORS 👑

  • Marco Ziech (mmz@gmx.net) and
  • Ross Combs (ross@bnetd.org)

legends, honestly. we stan. 💜

and that's the page, bestie!! this one came from the BNETD manual and it's dated 6 November, 2000 — yes, she's been serving icon-conversion excellence since Y2K and she has not missed a day since. periodt. 💅✨🎀

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