KCTAPE(1)

💖 KCTAPE(1) 💖

okay bestie, so this is kctape, from the General Commands Manual (section 1, obvi) — and it is literally your lil backstage pass to handling tape files for KCemu. it's giving retro-computer archivist realness and i'm obsessed 💅

✨ NAME ✨

kctape — handle tape files for KCemu 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

kctape -t tapefile [command [command_args]]
kctape --help

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so this manual page documents kctape briefly — like, the short version, the tl;dr, the sparknotes. fr fr, this is just a quick rundown of the command. 🫶

and here's the tea: this manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution, because the original program straight up does not have a manual page. so we made one. you're welcome. 😭✨

👑 OPTIONS 👑

• -h, --help — show a short help text. the lil "hey here's what this does" moment 🩷
• -v, --verbose — be verbose about what's going on. like, tell me everything, i wanna know 👀
• -t, --tape tapefile — the tape archive you wanna process. this is the main character fr 💖
• -l, --list — list the content of the tapefile. show me what's inside bestie 🎀
• -c, --create — create the tapefile you specified. baby's first tape ✨
• -a, --add file [file ...] — add new file(s) to the tapefile (in KC85/3 mode). yup, mode matters 💅
• -1, --add1 file [file ...] — add new file(s) to the tapefile, but this time in KC85/1 mode. different vibe, same energy 🌈
• -r, --remove filename — remove a file from the tapefile. sorry bestie, it's gotta go 💀
• -x, --extract filename — extract a file to stdout, or to the file you specify with -o. get it outta there 🦋
• -d, --dump filename — hexdump a file from the tapefile. numbers! pretty numbers! 🔥
• -o, --output filename — the output file for the extract command. where the extracted goods land 🍓
• -b, --print-bam — show the internal block allocation map. lowkey fascinating ngl
• -B, --print-block-list — show the internal block list. yes it's different from -b, don't @ me 👑

okay bestie, careful with the case here: -b and -B are not the same option. lowercase does the BAM, uppercase does the block list. iykyk 💅

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• kcemu(1x)
• kc2tap(1)
• kc2wav(1)
• kc2img(1)
• kc2raw(1)

💜 AUTHOR 💜

this manual page was written by Torsten Paul <Torsten.Paul@gmx.de>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system — but bestie, it may be used by others too. sharing is caring 🫶

aaaaand that's the whole thing! 🎀 written for the Debian GNU/Linux system, section 1 of the General Commands Manual, and the page footer is just that lil KCTAPE(1) stamp at the bottom. slay, go archive some tapes 💖✨