oakdecode(1)
π oakdecode(1) β General Commands Manual π
okay bestie, so this is the manual page for oakdecode, and it lives in the General Commands Manual section of your system, which is giving very "section 1, main character" energy ngl π
β¨ NAME β¨
oakdecode β Decode an OAKT printer stream into human readable form.
literally what it says on the tin, no cap.
π SYNOPSIS π
oakdecode [options] <OAKT-file
note the < bestie β she reads from stdin, she does not take a filename argument, we do not make the rules we just live in them π
π¦ DESCRIPTION π¦
oakdecode decodes an OAKT printer stream into human readable form.
An OAKT printer stream is the printer language used by the HP Color LaserJet 1500 and other printers.
so like⦠your printer is speaking OAKT and this girl translates. that's the whole job. iconic.
π COMMAND LINE OPTIONS π
These are the options that can appear on the command line.
-dbasename β Basename of.pbmfile for saving decompressed planes.-rbasename β Basename of.jbgfile for saving raw planes-iβ Suppress display of image records.-oβ Print file offsets.-Dlevel β Set Debug level[0].
yes bestie,-Ddefaults to0β the brackets mean default, that's just how manpages talk, iykyk π
π EXAMPLES π
Decode an OAKT file created by foo2oak.
$ oakdecode < testpage.oak
0d (80) 1 OTHER
0c (64) Wed Nov 05 16:30:50 2003 a07d3 100005 32001e
0a (80) testpage.pdf
14 (16) (no args)
28 (16) Source=Tray1
29 (80) PaperType=0 UNK8=2,0,0,0, blanks(63)
2a (32) Copies=1 UNK=0
2b (32) papercode=25 xwid=4648 ywid=9000 UNK=0
33 (64)
u0 u1 w h resx resy nBits
x0 x0 2128 4300 600 600 x1
15 (16) (no args)
bih0 w h l0 bih5 dlen plen unk yOff P subP
3c (64) 00010000 2176 256 256 58030020 1050 1056 000 64 3 0
DL = 0, D = 0, P = 1, - = 0, XY = 2176 x 256
L0 = 256, MX = 32, MY = 0
Order = 3 ILEAVE SMID
Options = 88 LRLTWO TPDON TPBON
1 stripes, 0 layers, 1 planes
3c (64) 00010000 2176 256 256 58030020 3668 3680 000 320 3 0
3c (64) 00010000 2176 256 256 58030020 1463 1472 000 640 3 0
3c (64) 00010000 2176 256 256 58030020 1975 1984 000 896 3 0
3c (64) 00010000 2176 224 224 58030020 2744 2752 000 1152 3 0
3c (64) 00010000 2176 256 256 58030020 988 992 000 1440 3 0
3c (64) 00010000 2176 256 256 58030020 2892 2896 000 1696 3 0
3c (64) 00010000 2176 256 256 58030020 3634 3648 000 1952 3 0
3c (64) 00010000 2176 256 256 58030020 3236 3248 000 2208 3 0
3c (64) 00010000 2176 256 256 58030020 2279 2288 000 2464 3 0
3c (64) 00010000 2176 256 256 58030020 3746 3760 000 2720 3 0
3c (64) 00010000 2176 200 200 58030020 2404 2416 000 2976 3 0
3c (64) 00010000 2176 256 256 58030020 3114 3120 000 3240 3 0
3c (64) 00010000 2176 96 96 58030020 1142 1152 000 3496 3 0
3c (64) 00010000 2176 256 256 58030020 2094 2112 000 3752 3 0
3c (64) 00010000 2176 256 256 58030020 1319 1328 000 4008 3 0
3c (64) 00010000 2176 36 36 58030020 208 224 000 4264 3 0
17 (16) (no args)
18 (16) UNK=0
0b (16) (no args)
look at all those 3c records. she's obsessed with 3c records. periodt π
πΈ FILES πΈ
/usr/bin/oakdecode
β SEE ALSO β
foo2oak-wrapper(1)foo2oak(1)jbg2pbm(1)
π«Ά AUTHOR π«Ά
Rick Richardson <rick.richardson@comcast.net> http://foo2oak.rkkda.com/
and that's the whole page bestie π this one shipped under the General Commands Manual banner as oakdecode(1) β that's the manual name and the manual, right there β and yeah, no version number or date was hanging out in the footer, it's just the manual name doing laps. slay. πβ¨
π¦ where this page comes from
- ubuntu noble: printer-driver-foo2zjs-common 20200505dfsg0-2ubuntu6 Β· GPL-2.0-or-later
- ubuntu questing: printer-driver-foo2zjs-common 20200505dfsg0-2ubuntu6
- π girlified by deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash on : a language model's rewrite of the original, under its terms