FROMBIN(1)

📦 version 0.0.20060102, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 FROMBIN(1) — the tobin glow-up 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the FROMBIN manual page (that's the man name, section 1, General Commands Manual — we're in the big leagues 💅). Sit down, grab a strawberry 🍓, and let's talk about wrapping files in macbinary like it's a lil gift 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

tobin — convert a series of files into a series of macbinary files 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

tobin [-resfilename] [-type4-character-string] [-creator4-character-
string] file...

yes the flags are squished up against their arguments in the synopsis, that's just how it is, no cap

🫶 DESCRIPTION 🫶

So like. tobin reads a whole series of files and wraps each one up in a macbinary wrapper. Cute, right? It's giving gift-wrapping but for files 🎁

Here's the tea: on the mac, it reads the resource fork and the file create/type flags straight from the filesystem — as one would expect, obviously, that's just how the mac do 💅

But on non-mac systems, where these concepts literally do not exist 😭, you can just specify them on the command line with options. We got you. No filesystem forks? No problem. We're improvising ✨

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • -res filename — Specify the name of a file from which a "resource fork" should be read. This argument should precede the data file with which it is associated (and if you want a file with no data fork, you may omit the data file — icon behaviour, honestly 👑).
  • -type 4-character-string — Specify the a mac 4 character type string used to tell the finder what kind of file it is 👀. This argument should precede the data or resource file with which it is associated.
  • -creator 4-character-string — Specify the a mac 4 character type string used to tell the finder what application is associated with this file 🧚. This argument should precede the data or resource file with which it is associated.
heads up bestie: the ordering is not a vibe suggestion, it's the whole thing. the -res, -type and -creator flags gotta come before the file they're describing, or they're describing nothing. order matters, periodt 💀

🌈 AUTHOR 🌈

George Williams (gww@silcom.com) 🫶

and that's the whole page bestie, we ate and left no crumbs 🍽️✨

this was FROMBIN(1) from the General Commands Manual, dated 21 December 2002 — yeah it's vintage, it's a classic, we stan an icon of its era 👑🦋

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