SYSLINUX2ANSI(1)

✨ NAME ✨

syslinux2ansi — bestie, it converts a syslinux-format screen to pc-ansi 💖

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

syslinux2ansi < filename.input > filename.output

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Okay so syslinux2ansi is a filter, and her whole job is taking a screen that's been formatted for syslinux and turning it into one that plays nice with PC ANSI. Glow-up complete, no cap.

Here's the tea though: she will only read from standard in. That's it. That's the only way she eats. And she has no command line options at all — not a single flag, not one. So don't come at her with arguments, she's not that kind of girl. 💅

💀 BUGS 💀

Not everything is slay, unfortunately:

• Help and version command line options would be useful. (Right?? iconic suggestion.)
• The ability to put input and output filenames on the command line might be good as well.

Like, imagine being able to just pass a file. Imagine. 🙈

🎀 Bug reports 🎀

Okay so if you've got problems with SYSLINUX, please tell her — she genuinely wants to hear about it. And honestly? She also wants to hear from you if SYSLINUX is working great for you, especially if you're using it for a distribution. Success stories are the vibe. 🌈

If you are reporting problems, bestie, please include all possible information about your system and your BIOS. Like, all of it. Because the vast majority of all problems reported turn out to be BIOD or hardware bugs (typo bestie, you know they meant BIOS 💀) — and she needs as much information as possible in order to diagnose the problems. Fr fr, the more data the better.

There's a mailing list for discussion among SYSLINUX users and for announcements of new and test versions. To join, send a message to majordomo@linux.kernel.org with the line:

subscribe syslinux

in the body of the message. The submission address is syslinux@linux.kernel.org. 🫶

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

• syslinux(1)
• perl(1)

👑 AUTHOR 👑

This manual page is a quick write-up for Debian done by Kevin Kreamer <kkreamer@etherhogz.org>, by looking over the 1 screenful of Perl that is syslinux2ansi. One screenful. That's the whole program. Iconic behavior honestly. ✨

And that's the whole page, bestie — this was the SYSLINUX2ANSI(1) page from the General Commands Manual, and you've officially reached the bottom of it. Ate and left no crumbs. 💅💖🌸