extract_dxhog(1)

NAME ✨

okay so bestie, this page is about extract_dxhog — the tool that pulls all the files out of a Descent HOG archive (Parallax Software/Outrage Entertainment style) 💅, and it's sitting right here in the hxtools manual ✨

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SYNTAX 🎀

like, here's exactly how you call it, no cap:

extract_d3hog [-Lv] [-C dir] [-f file]

(yes the name up top and the name in this line are different — that's just how it is, we don't ask questions 🙈)

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DESCRIPTION 🦋

So what does it do? It extracts all the files sitting inside a Parallax Software/Outrage Entertainment HOG archive file. That's it. That's the whole vibe. Every single file, out they come 🌸

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OPTIONS 🔥

okay so most of these are literally borrowed from tar(1) — iconic crossover behavior honestly 👑

• -C dir — extracts the files into the directory dir. if you don't say anything, it just drops them into the current directory, ngl the default is very "wherever you already are" energy 🫶
• -L — automatically lowercases filenames during extraction, but only if they happen to be all uppercase. not me fixing your SHOUTY FILENAMES for you 💀
• -f file — extract from file. and if you don't pass it? it defaults to stdin, bestie, so pipe it in if that's your thing ✨
• -v — be verbose, meaning it prints file info and filenames. highkey the "tell me everything" option, we love a chatty queen 👑

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SUPPORTED GAMES 🎮

the games whose HOG files this thing understands, in a cute little list:

• Descent 1
• Descent 2
• Descent 3

three for three, ate 💅

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SEE ALSO 🌈

• hxtools(7) — the whole hxtools family, go say hi 🫶

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real talk: this page is from hxtools, dated 2008-11-11 — vintage but still slaying, periodt. run extract_d3hog responsibly and may your archives always unpack cleanly 💖🧚⭐