cpidcomp(1)

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💾 cpidcomp(1) — the PSF Tools glow-up edition ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to cpidcomp, section 1 of the manual, brought to you by the PSF Tools girlies. she's a codepage compressor and she's literally so iconic. let's get into it 🎀

🌸 NAME 🌸

cpidcomp — compress a CPI codepage by converting it to DRFONT format 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

cpidcomp [--nointer] [--nt] [INPUTFILE [OUTPUTFILE]]

look at her. three little flags-adjacent things and two optional files. no cap, that's the whole vibe 🦋

🧚 DESCRIPTION 🧚

cpidcomp converts codepage from the efficient but DRDOS-specific DRFONT format to the more wasteful FONT or FONT.NT format. 💀

fyi, the NAME section up top says she "compresses" a CPI codepage by converting it to DRFONT, and this DESCRIPTION says she converts from DRFONT to FONT/FONT.NT. both of those are exactly what the page says, so we're reporting them as-is, periodt. 🙈

👑 OPTIONS 👑

  • --nointer — ngl, by default CPI files get saved interleaved, meaning the data for each codepage comes right after its header, back to back to back. with this option tho, all the headers get saved first and then all the data. some utilities will lowkey not handle this layout very well, so heads up bestie 😭
  • --nt — save in the FONT.NT format used by Windows NT instead of the FONT format used by MSDOS. pick your fighter 🫶

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

💖 AUTHOR 💖

John Elliott <seasip.webmaster@gmail.com>. king behaviour, honestly 👑

Version 1.1.3 · 28 April, 2026 🌈

and that's the whole page, bestie!! slay 💅✨ she ate and left no crumbs. go compress something (or decompress something, we're not judging, iykyk) 🍓🦋

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