grokevt-dumpmsgs(1)

✨ grokevt-dumpmsgs — the manual page bestie 💅

okay so you found grokevt-dumpmsgs(1) and honestly? slay. this is a lil tool for dumping the contents of message databases that were built earlier by grokevt-ripdll(1). it's giving "peek behind the curtain" energy and i'm obsessed. 🎀

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

grokevt-dumpmsgs message-db1 [message-db2 ...]

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so here's the tea: grokevt-dumpmsgs takes one or more message databases that were previously built with grokevt-ripdll(1) and prints out all the entries to stdout. every single one. no skipping. 🫶

ngl, this is mainly a debugging tool — that's its whole main character moment — but it can also be lowkey useful for analyzing the message contents of PE files while you're developing other applications. so like, dev tool by day, forensic vibe by night. ✨

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🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

grokevt-dumpmsgs uses the following arguments, bestie:

• message-dbN — if multiple message databases are supplied, entries of all databases are printed to stdout in the order they are provided. yes, order matters. it's literally just vibing through them one by one in the sequence you handed them over. 🔥

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👑 OUTOUT 👑

(yes, that's the section name in the source, and honestly? iconic. not me editing the manpage lore. 💀)

grokevt-dumpmsgs prints each database entry out on a single line, in two comma-separated columns.

the first column is the message ID, which is in the format:

XXXX-YYYYYYYY

here, XXXX represents the message's language code, and the YYYYYYYY represents the message's relative virtual address (RVA) within the message block of the PE file. two different things, one lil hyphen, no cap. 💅

the second column contains the message itself. messages containing special characters (such as newlines or commas) are encoded in the same manner that grokevt-parselog(1) encodes them — that's "%XX" where XX is the hexadecimal value of the character. so commas inside messages don't break the comma-separated columns, which is very much the point. 🧚

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💀 BUGS 💀

probably several. 😭 this particular script has not been extensively tested. that's the whole bug report. we love honesty. 🌈

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🎀 CREDITS 🎀

written by Timothy D. Morgan. thank you for your service king 👑

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📜 LICENSE 📜

please see the file "LICENSE" included with this software distribution.

this program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. see the GNU General Public License version 3 for more details. that's the serious part, bestie — fr fr, read the GPLv3. 🫶

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🔍 SEE ALSO 🔍

• grokevt(7)
• grokevt-addlog(1)
• grokevt-builddb(1)
• grokevt-findlogs(1)
• grokevt-parselog(1)
• grokevt-ripdll(1)

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! 🦋 this one came from the File Conversion Utilities, dated 20 June 2011 — yes, 2011, it's a vintage icon and we respect the heritage. mwah 💋 go dump some messages, you got this ✨