VOACAPL(1)

💖 VOACAPL 💖 — like, the dst2csv page, bestie

okay so real quick, this whole thing lives in the User Manuals zone of the VOACAPL(1) manual, and it's short but it ATE. it's all about one tiny little utility and honestly? she's an icon. 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

dst2csv — the girl who converts DST record files to CSV 🦋

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

dst2csv
dst2csv -i dst_directory
dst2csv -d -i dst_directory

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so, this is a small utility (small but mighty, no cap) whose entire job is converting the binary record file — the one that gets produced when you perform distance calculations — into a CSV file, so you can keep processing it afterwards. it's giving "middle manager of file formats", and we love her for it. 👑

and like, when do those distance calculations even happen? they get triggered by using the filenames voacapd.dat and voacapd.out for the voacap input/output files. so basically, this:

voacapl ~/itshfbc voacapd.dat voacapd.out

periodt. that's the vibe check. 🌈

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💜 OPTIONS 💜

• dst_directory — this is where the .dst file and its corresponding .idx file hang out, together, as they should 🫶. the output csv file gets saved in this directory too. and if you don't pass this parameter at all? no worries bestie, it just uses the current working directory. lowkey convenient.

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⭐ EXAMPLES ⭐

okay, watch this, three little moments:

dst2csv

creates a CSV file (voacapd.csv) using the values found in the voacap.dst and voacapd.idx files located in the current working directory. yes, right there where you're standing. so easy.

dst2csv -i my_directory

creates a CSV file (my_directory/voacapd.csv) using the values found in the voacap.dst and voacapd.idx files located in the directory 'my_directory'. look at her, being all organized. 👑

dst2csv -d -i my_directory

creates a CSV file (my_directory/voacapd.csv) using the values found in the voacap.dst and voacapd.idx files and a 'dump' file (my_directory/voacapd.dmp). oh she's doing the MOST now, we stan. 🔥

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🎀 FILES 🎀

• voacapd.dst, voacapd.idx — listen, dst2csv requires access to the dst file and its corresponding index (.idx) file to run. like, that's the whole thing. no files, no csv, no slay. 💀

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🧚 ENVIRONMENT 🧚

dst2csv does not make use of any environment variables. not a single one. she's unbothered, she's self-contained, she needs nothing from the outside world. main character energy fr fr. ✨

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

James Watson <jimwatson at mac dot com>. go say hi, very demure, very mindful. 🙈

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

www.voacap.com — go look, iykyk 🦋

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okay bestie that's the whole page, you're officially a dst2csv expert now, no cap 💖 this lil' slice of the User Manuals comes to you from Linux, version SEO 2013, and yeah — that's literally the whole vibe. slay, bye! 💅🌸⭐