VOACAPL(1)

📦 version 0.7.7, in debian trixie, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 VOACAPL(1) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the User Manuals section, this is the whole vibe for VOACAPL(1) and honestly? it's giving niche-but-iconic 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

dst2ascii — the little cutie that converts DST record files to CSV 🌸

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

dst2ascii
dst2ascii dst_directory

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so like, this is a small utility — a lil side quest, a tiny errand runner — whose whole job is converting the binary record file that gets produced when you do distance calculations into an ASCII file so you can actually analyze it later. 💅

and how do you even trigger those distance calculations, you ask? you do it by using the filenames voacapd.dat and voacapd.out for your voacap input/output files. like, that's the secret handshake. for example:

voacapl ~/itshfbc voacapd.dat voacapd.output

no cap, that's it. the file names ARE the trigger. 🦋

✨ OPTIONS ✨

  • dst_directory — the location of the .dst file and its corresponding .idx file 🫶 the output ASCII file gets saved right there in that same directory. and if you don't pass this parameter at all? no worries bestie, it just uses the current working directory. periodt.

✨ EXAMPLES ✨

dst2ascii

creates an ASCII file (voacapd.asc) using the values it finds in the voacap.dst and voacapd.idx files sitting in the current working directory. ✨

dst2ascii my_directory

creates an ASCII file (my_directory/voacapd.asc) using the values it finds in the voacap.dst and voacapd.idx files living in the directory 'my_directory'. 🌈

✨ FILES ✨

  • voacapd.dst voacapd.idx — okay so dst2ascii requires access to the .dst file and its corresponding index (.idx) file in order to run. like, it literally cannot do its thing without them. no .idx, no slay. 💀

✨ ENVIRONMENT ✨

dst2ascii does not make use of any environment variables. not a single one. it's lowkey unbothered by your env entirely 🙈

✨ AUTHOR ✨

James Watson <jimwatson at mac dot com> 👑

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

www.voacap.com 🌐

and that's the whole page bestie!! this one came from Linux, the SEO 2013 era, and it's filed under VOACAPL(1) — go forth and convert those records, you absolute main character 🧚💜

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