MAKEWEIGHTS(6)

✨ MAKEWEIGHTS ✨ — like, the games manual section 6 moment 🎲💖

okay bestie, gather round, because today we're talking about makeweights, a lil helper from the Games Manual (that's section 6, iykyk) 🎀

🌸 NAME 🌸

makeweights — bestie. it generates a GNU Backgammon binary weights file 💅 no cap, that's literally its whole job.

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

makeweights [[-f] output [input]]

that's the whole vibe check right there ✨

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so. makeweights takes a text input file and turns it into a GNU Backgammon binary weights file. iconic behaviour, honestly 🫶

by default? it reads input from standard input and writes output to standard output. very demure, very mindful. but if you want, you can specify the input and output files right there on the command line instead 💅

now here's the tea tho — this is only of interest to you if you want to regenerate the gnubg.wd database from a modified gnubg.weights file. so if that's not your situation, no worries, you can just keep scrolling, this isn't for you and that's okay 🧚

💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -f — okay so this one may be given for compatibility with the options of other GNU Backgammon programs... but bestie, it's ignored. like, fully. it does nothing. it's there for the vibes and the vibes only 🙈

🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

want to generate gnubg.wd from gnubg.weights? say less. here's the move:

makeweights gnubg.wd gnubg.weights

ate. no crumbs. 👑

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

gnubg(6) — go read that one too, bestie, it's the main character of this whole franchise 💜

🎀 AUTHORS 🎀

these absolute legends made it happen:

• Joseph Heled
• Øystein Johansen
• Jørn Thyssen
• Gary Wong

...with the assistance of many others <bug-gnubg@gnu.org> 🫶 shoutout to the whole group chat, fr fr.

and this manual page was written by Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). it may be redistributed and/or modified under the terms of version 3 or later of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation — the same license as GNU Backgammon. licensing queen behaviour 💅

just a lil reminder bestie: everything above is the real, actual, no-cap info. the -f flag is genuinely ignored, so don't be out here expecting it to do something 💀

okay that's the whole page!! this one's dated 2008-02-16 and comes to you from the Games Manual (section 6) of the GNU Backgammon crew 🎲✨ bye bestie, go regenerate some weights, mwah 💖👑