HERCULES(1)

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💖 HERCULES(1) — bestie edition 💖

okay so this is the manual page for hercules, from the General Commands Manual section 1, and she is that girl: a System/370, ESA/390 and z/Architecture Emulator. main character energy fr fr 👑

✨ NAME ✨

hercules — System/370, ESA/390 and z/Architecture Emulator

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

hercules [-f config-file]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

ngl this manual page is just the brief lil rundown of the hercules program. it's giving appetizer, not full meal.

and here's the tea: this page was written specifically for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution, because the original program doesn't ship a manual page at all 😭 instead it has documentation in HTML format — see below for where that lives, iykyk.

so what is Hercules? she's an open source software implementation of the mainframe System/370 and ESA/390 architectures, plus the new 64-bit z/Architecure. she runs under Linux, Windows 98, Windows NT, and Windows 2000. periodt. 💅

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • -f — use a config file other than /etc/hercules/hercules.cnf. like, the default is fine, but if you wanna be different, this is your moment bestie ✨

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

the programs are documented fully by The Hercules System/370, ESA/390, and z/Architecture Emulator, which you'll find sitting pretty in:

/usr/share/doc/hercules/html

go read it, it's iconic 🫶

👑 AUTHOR 👑

  • Hercules was created by Roger Bowler and is maintained by Jay Maynard.
  • Jan Jaeger designed and implemented many of the advanced features of Hercules, including dynamic reconfiguration, integrated console, interpretive execution, and z/Architecture support. the range?? unmatched 🌸
  • This manual page was written by Matt Zimmerman mdz@debian.org for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts and no Back-Cover Texts.

and that's the whole page, bestie 💖 this was HERCULES(1) from the General Commands Manual — go forth, emulate a mainframe, slay 💅✨🎀

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