JZEXE(6)

💖 JZEXE(6) 💖

okay bestie, gather round, because this one lives in the Games Manual section of your Unix system and it is so niche and so useful. It's called jzexe, and no cap, it's the little glue stick of the Z-Code world. ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

jzexe — Generates standalone Z-Code programs

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

jzexe <story file> [jzip program]
jzexe -x <standalone program>
jzexe

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

This manual page documents briefly the jzexe command. And here's the tea ☕: this page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program literally does not have a manual page of its own. So we made one. You're welcome. 💅

So what does jzexe actually do, you ask? It's giving crafts-and-glue energy. 🧚 It's a program that generates a standalone Z-Code executable program by gluing jzip and the specified Z-Code program together. Like, one file. One vibe. One executable. Iconic.

It assumes jzip is located at /usr/games/jzip, which can be overridden by the command line. Yes bestie, you can point it somewhere else if your jzip is living its own life in a different directory. 🫶

It calls a standalone executable <story file>.exe, and saves its output in the current directory. So peek at where you're standing before you run it, okay? 🙈

And plot twist — jzexe can also extract Z-Code programs from the executables it creates. It's a two-way street. Reversible. Main character behavior fr fr. 🔥

✨ OPTIONS ✨

A summary of options are included below. (There's like, one. But she's important.)

• -x — Extract a program from a stand alone executable, naming it <standalone name>.z<z-code version>. Un-gluing! De-crafting! Taking the story back out of the box. 🎁

Also: run jzexe with no arguments to view invocation options. Like, just type it and hit enter. She'll tell you what's up. 😌

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• jzip(6)
• /usr/share/doc/jzip/Jzexe.txt.gz

🌈 AUTHOR 🌈

This manual page was written by Michael Stroucken <stroucki@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). Shoutout to Michael for writing the docs when nobody else would. 💜

and that's the whole page, bestie — this was JZEXE(6), page 6, the Games Manual, the one and only. Go forth and glue some Z-Code together. slay 🦋💖🌸