save_d(3)

💾 save_d — the manual page, bestie edition ✨

okay so real quick, we're doing the save_d(3) page today, and it lives in the Library Functions Manual section of the docs 💖 so like, it's a library function thing, not a command you just type at your shell, iykyk. buckle up, this one's short but it's a whole vibe.

🌸 NAME 🌸

save_d — the AA-lib driver that saves your ascii-art image into a file, in whatever format you tell it to use 💅

no literally that's it, that's the whole job. it takes your cute little ascii masterpiece and writes it to disk. iconic behaviour honestly 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <aalib.h>

extern const struct aa_driver save_d;

so you're pulling in aalib.h, and you get this extern const struct aa_driver save_d; — that's the driver object itself, sitting there all extern const like the main character it is 👑

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so here's the tea ☕

you initialize this driver by calling the aa_init function — yes, that one, go look it up, it's right there in the SEE ALSO, bestie 🫶

and then you specify the driver-dependent parameters inside the aa_savedata structure — that's where you tell it like, which file, which format, all the juicy specifics — and boom, it saves your image into a file 📁✨

that's the whole flow. driver + params = saved image. slay.

and if you want the actual details of the params and all the nitty-gritty, the page says: See the texinfo documentation for details. so like, go read the texinfo docs, they got the lore 📖💜

🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

omg okay this list is LONG and honestly it's giving "tag yourself, I'm aa_recommendlowkbd(3)" energy 😭 every single one of these is part of the family, so here we go:

• mem_d(3)
• aa_help(3)
• aa_formats(3)
• aa_fonts(3)
• aa_dithernames(3)
• aa_drivers(3)
• aa_kbddrivers(3)
• aa_mousedrivers(3)
• aa_kbdrecommended(3)
• aa_mouserecommended(3)
• aa_displayrecommended(3)
• aa_defparams(3)
• aa_defrenderparams(3)
• aa_scrwidth(3)
• aa_scrheight(3)
• aa_mmwidth(3)
• aa_mmheight(3)
• aa_imgwidth(3)
• aa_imgheight(3)
• aa_image(3)
• aa_text(3)
• aa_attrs(3)
• aa_currentfont(3)
• aa_autoinit(3)
• aa_autoinitkbd(3)
• aa_autoinitmouse(3)
• aa_recommendhi(3)
• aa_recommendlow(3)
• aa_init(3)
• aa_initkbd(3)
• aa_initmouse(3)
• aa_close(3)
• aa_uninitkbd(3)
• aa_uninitmouse(3)
• aa_fastrender(3)
• aa_render(3)
• aa_puts(3)
• aa_printf(3)
• aa_gotoxy(3)
• aa_hidecursor(3)
• aa_showcursor(3)
• aa_getmouse(3)
• aa_hidemouse(3)
• aa_showmouse(3)
• aa_registerfont(3)
• aa_setsupported(3)
• aa_setfont(3)
• aa_getevent(3)
• aa_getkey(3)
• aa_resize(3)
• aa_resizehandler(3)
• aa_parseoptions(3)
• aa_edit(3)
• aa_createedit(3)
• aa_editkey(3)
• aa_putpixel(3)
• aa_recommendhikbd(3)
• aa_recommendlowkbd(3)
• aa_recommendhimouse(3)
• aa_recommendlowmouse(3)
• aa_recommendhidisplay(3)
• aa_recommendlowdisplay(3)

like I said. whole family reunion 🌈 no cap, go click through them, they all ate 💖

okay and before I go, the little sign-off at the bottom of the page says this was written by c2man out of aalib.h, dated 8 September 1999, and it's the save_d(3) page itself 🥹 so yeah, 1999 called, it's still serving looks, and we love that for it. bye bestie, go save some ascii art 💾💜🦋