GCIN(1)

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✨ GCIN(1) — the gcin input method platform situation ✨

okay bestie, listen up, we're diving into the gcin input method platform manual and honestly? it's giving essential 💅

🎀 NAME 🎀

phoa2d, phod2a — the Bopomofo tools that ship with gcin 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

phoa2d
phod2a

no flags, no arguments, no drama. you just run them. iconic behavior honestly 👑

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

phoa2d</purl> converts <code>$HOME/.gcin/pho.tab.src</code> into <code>$HOME/.gcin/pho.tab</code>, and that output file is literally what the Bopomofo and Tsin input methods use. so like, it's kind of a big deal 🔥

phod2a goes the other direction, bestie: it takes <code>$HOME/.gcin/pho.tab</code> and turns it back into <code>$HOME/.gcin/pho.tab.src</code>, which is the version users are allowed to edit. so if you wanna poke at the source form, that's your girl ✨

🌈 ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES 🌈

  • GCIN_NO_RELOAD — tells the gcin server not to reload data after phoa2d finishes running. no reload, no chaos, just vibes 🫶

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

gcin(1). that's it, that's the list 💜

💅 AUTHOR 💅

phoa2d and phod2a were written by Edward Der-Hua Liu <cp76@csie.nctu.edu.tw>. we stan a legend 🎀

and that's the whole thing! this page is from GCIN 1.3.8, dated 21 JAN 2008 — old but absolutely still eating, no cap 💖✨🦋

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