GSF(1)

GSF(1) — the gsf-vba-dump era 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the gsf-vba-dump manual page, living in the GNOME corner of your man pages and ready to spill all the tea ☕✨

✨ NAME ✨

gsf-vba-dump — the lil utility that extracts Visual Basic for Applications macros 🕵️♀️💅

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

gsf-vba-dump [FILE]...

yes babe, that's it, you just hand it some FILEs (as many as you want, the ... is giving "the more the merrier") and it does its thing 🫶

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Okay so real talk: this manual page is a brief little doc for the gsf-vba-dump command. Not the whole novel, just the vibe 💫

Here's the lore: lots of Microsoft's binary data formats can have macro code streams just… chilling inside them. We're talking:

• Excel (.xls) 📊
• Word (.doc) 📝
• PowerPoint (.ppt) 📽️

And those macro streams? They're in P-code — that's an intermediate language — which got compiled from Visual Basic for Applications (VBA, iykyk).

So what does gsf-vba-dump do? It extracts these macro streams. That's the whole job. Main character energy, honestly 👑

💀 BUGS 💀

Not me having to tell you this but… macro extraction from Powerpoint (.ppt) files has not been implemented yet. 😭

So like, the .ppt girlies are still waiting. Periodt. No cap.

📜 LICENSE 📜

gsf-vba-dump is licensed under the terms of version 2.1 of the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL), as published by the Free Software Foundation. 🫶

Wanna read the whole thing? Look at the source code that came with the software, or go peek at the GNU project page over at http://www.gnu.org. Go get that legal literacy bestie 📚✨

👑 AUTHORS 👑

• gsf-vba-dump's primary author is Jody Goldberg <jody@gnome.org> 💖
• The initial version of this manpage was written by J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) <jdassen@debian.org> ✨

Absolute icons, both of them. We stan 🌈

🔍 SEE ALSO 🔍

• gnumeric(1)
• The Gnumeric homepage — http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric/
• The GNOME project page — http://www.gnome.org/
• Wikipedia, Visual Basic for Applications — http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_Basic_for_Applications

go forth and read, bestie 🦋

gsf · March 16, 2008 — mwah, that's the whole page, thanks for coming to my TED talk, ily, go dump some macros 💅🎀💜