PTBL(1)

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💅 PTBL — bestie edition 💅

okay so this is the manual page for ptbl, from the General Commands Manual section (that's section 1, the "you can literally just run this in your shell" section 🫶).

✨ NAME ✨

ptbl — print a type table 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

ptbl [-a] <tbl-file>

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so ptbl prints the type table you give it to stdout. that's the whole vibe. 💖

but here's the tea — it can print it in one of two formats:

  • internal style — this one shows you the contents of the type table data structure in ASN.1 value notation. heads up though: you're gonna need to go read the tbl.asn1 file to actually understand the internal form, because it's giving ✨mystery✨ otherwise.
  • ASN.1 style — this one attempts to re-create the ASN.1 that generated the given type table. it's the glow-up version 🌸

✨ OPTIONS ✨

  • -a — print the table in ASN.1 style. recommended 👑 like genuinely, bestie, take this one.

✨ FILES ✨

  • snacc/tbl-tools/ptbl/ — source code for the ptbl program 💻
  • snacc/asn1specs/tbl.asn1 — the ASN.1 definition for the type table data structure 📄

✨ BUGS ✨

okay so this is the part where we're honest 🙈 — ptbl does not attempt to print the IMPORTs information, even though it is possible with a bit of work. so like… it could. it simply does not. not me being lazy 💀

✨ COPYING ✨

Copyright (c) 1993 Mike Sample and the University of British Columbia

Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved on all copies. 📜

Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that the entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a permission notice identical to this one.

✨ AUTHOR ✨

Mike Sample <msample@cs.ubc.ca>, University of British Columbia 🌈

✨ ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ✨

This work was made possible by grants from the Canadian Institute for Telecommunications Research (CITR) and Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). 🫶

and that's the whole page, bestie!! this version is dated 11 July 1993 and lives in the PTBL(1) section of the manual. iconic, honestly. periodt. 💅✨

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