MACSAVE(1)

💾 MACSAVE(1) 💾

okay bestie, so the manual page you're looking at is macsave from the General Commands Manual section of the Unix manuals, and I am so ready to walk you through it 🌸

✨ NAME ✨

macsave — save Mac files read from standard input 🍓

🌈 SYNOPSIS 🌈

macsave [ - options ]

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

macsave reads a sequence of Macintosh MacBinary files from standard input and writes the files it contains, subject to the options you specify. no cap, that's the whole vibe 💖

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

so if you pass no options at all, macsave reads standard input and silently writes the file(s) it contains in MacBinary format — it gives the output files .bin extensions and drops them right in the current working directory. subdirectories get created for embedded folders. it's giving "just do the thing, no commentary" 👑

• -3 — write files in fork format (.info, .data and .rsrc files.)
• -f — same as -3, but empty data and rsrc files are not created. (so like, if it's empty, we don't speak of it 🙈)
• -r — write resource forks only (.rsrc files.)
• -d — write data forks only (.data files.)
• -u — same as -d, but the codes for CR and LF are interchanged, and the filename extension is .text.
• -U — same as -u, but there is no filename extension. (bare-faced, no extension, iconic honestly)
• -a — write files in AppleShare format. ⚠️ this option is only valid if the program is compiled with support for some form of AppleShare. the current directory must be a valid AppleShare folder.
• -s — write extracted files to standard output in MacBinary format.
• -l — list every file extracted (and every directory/folder created etc.) like a little receipt 🧾
• -i — do not extract, give information only (implies -l.)
• -q — ask the user for every file/folder whether it should be extracted (implies -l.) consent checks, we love to see it 🫶
• -V — gives the patchlevel of the program, and other information. other options are ignored and the program quits immediately. it said "anyway, bye" 💀
• -H — give short information about the options. other options are ignored and the program quits immediately.

💀 BUGS 💀

as this is a beta release, there may still be some problems. so like, be aware bestie, she's still growing 🌱

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

macutil(1)

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Dik T. Winter, CWI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (dik@cwi.nl) — a whole legend, fr fr 💜

and that's the whole page!! this was the 3rd Berkeley Distribution version, dated October 22, 1992 ✨ mwah, slay, go read your MacBinary files responsibly 🦋💖