UNMASS(1)

📦 version 0.9, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 UNMASS(1) — the unmass girlies' manual 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to unmass, straight outta the General Commands Manual section 1 ✨

🦋 NAME 🦋

unmass — extract game archive files. that's it, that's the whole vibe. 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

unmass [options] file

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so this manual page is gonna give you the brief rundown of the unmass command, no cap. 📖

unmass is a tool that extracts game archives — like, it opens up those mysterious archive files and pulls the stuff out of them. and the way it supports SO many archive types?? iconic. genuinely obsessed. here's the full roster, no gatekeeping:

  • Crismon Land
  • Baldur's Gate 2
  • Civilization 4
  • Doom (WADs)
  • Dune 2
  • Etherlords 2
  • Final Fantasy 7 and 8
  • Flashpoint
  • Knights of Xentar
  • Metal Gear Solid (DARs)
  • Moorhuhn 2 and 3
  • Megaman Legends
  • Oni
  • Operation Flashpoint
  • Princess Maker 2
  • Quake 1
  • RollCage
  • Swine
  • Unreal Tournament umods
  • Virtua Fighter bitmaps
  • MEA exe's
  • some economy file format

like?? it really said "i contain multitudes" and meant it. 🫶

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • -h, --help — shows you a lil summary of all the options. your bestie when you're lost. 🧚
  • -e <archive file> <file name> [...<file name>] — opens up the archive and extracts files. you give it the archive, then one or more file names, and it goes and gets 'em for you. 💖
  • --modules — prints out the list of modules for archive loading. like a lil roster of who's available to do the loading. 👑
  • --list <archive file> — opens the archive and prints the list of the files chilling inside. a little peek behind the curtain. 🔥

🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

1. display the list of files contained inside the archive battle.lgp:

unmass -list battle.lgp

2. opens battle.lgp and extracts the file aabc.txt and all files ending with dat into the current directory:

unmass -e battle.lgp aabc.txt *dat

see how easy that was?? main character energy fr fr. 😭✨

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

pak(1).

🍓 AUTHOR 🍓

unmass was written by Miro Janosik. 🫡

this manual page was written by Gürkan Myczko <gurkan@phys.ethz.ch>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others). 💖

ok bestie real talk: this page is from the General Commands Manual, it's the UNMASS(1) one, and it's dated July 9, 2007. yes it's old, yes it still ate, and yes i'm obsessed. go extract some archives, you got this. periodt. 💅🎀🦋
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