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$NetBSD: patch-ab,v 1.1.1.1 2004/12/30 13:04:56 minskim Exp $
--- par.man.orig 2001-08-17 14:11:42.000000000 -0500
+++ par.man
@@ -1,46 +1,46 @@
.TH PAR 1 "November 1999" "Version 0.5 (beta)" "Palm hacking commands"
.SH NAME
-par \- Palm database archiver, version 0.5.
+pdbar \- Palm database archiver, version 0.5.
.SH SYNOPSIS
-.B par t
+.B pdbar t
.I dbfile
.PP
-.B par h
+.B pdbar h
.I dbfile
.PP
-.B par x
+.B pdbar x
.I dbfile
.BI [ ioptions ]
.BI [ records.. ]
.PP
-.B par\ c
+.B pdbar\ c
.BI [ hoptions ]
.I dbfile\ name\ type\ cid
.BI [ ioptions ]
.BI [ files.. ]
.PP
-.B par u
+.B pdbar u
.BI [ hoptions ]
.I dbfile
.BI [ ioptions ]
.BI [ updates.. ]
.PP
-.B par a
+.B pdbar a
.BI [ hoptions ]
.I dbfile
.BI [ ioptions ]
.BI [ files.. ]
.PP
-.B par d
+.B pdbar d
.BI [ hoptions ]
.I dbfile
.BI [ doptions ]
.BI [ records.. ]
.PP
-.B par V
+.B pdbar V
.SH DESCRIPTION
The
-.B par
+.B pdbar
utility creates and manipulates PalmOS database
.B (.pdb)
and resource
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ fashion described for the
.B x
mode.
In addition to individual records and resources,
-.B par
+.B pdbar
can append whole databases, in effect merging the records or resources
from one database into another. Databases may be specified as append
items explicitly using the
@@ -330,23 +330,23 @@ database.
.SH EXAMPLES
The following example prints the header information for the database 'foo.pdb'.
.PP
-.B par h foo.pdb
+.B pdbar h foo.pdb
.PP
The following extracts all records from 'foo.pdb'.
.PP
-.B par x foo.pdb
+.B pdbar x foo.pdb
.PP
The following extracts the application icon resource from 'app.prc' and saves
it in the file 'icon.Tbmp'. Note the use of decimal specification for the
resource id. The id may be specified in hex using by using the '0x' prefix.
.PP
-.B par x app.prc -f icon.Tbmp tAIB 1000
+.B pdbar x app.prc -f icon.Tbmp tAIB 1000
.PP
The following creates a new application resource database from all the
the files with a '.bin' extension in the current directory. The database
will have creator id of 'djwP' and will have the backup bit set.
.PP
-.B par c -a \&"resource|backup\&" app.prc myapp appl djwP *.bin
+.B pdbar c -a \&"resource|backup\&" app.prc myapp appl djwP *.bin
.PP
If you use the author's technique for creating multi-segment library
prcs with CodeWarrior, the following example will be useful. This
@@ -355,7 +355,7 @@ to change the attribute type of the prim
type = 'code', id = '1' (as used in an application) to type = 'libr',
id = '0' (as used in a library).
.PP
-.B par u -T libr mylib.prc -T libr 0 code 1
+.B pdbar u -T libr mylib.prc -T libr 0 code 1
.PP
The following example merges the resources from two different
resource databases,
@@ -368,10 +368,10 @@ This technique is useful for managing co
of an application, using the individual resource databases as
libraries.
.PP
-.B par r myapp.prc myapp appl djwP code.prc resource.prc
+.B pdbar r myapp.prc myapp appl djwP code.prc resource.prc
.PP
By default,
-.B par
+.B pdbar
saves extracted resources using the form
.IR <type><id>.bin ,
where
@@ -380,31 +380,31 @@ is the 4 character type of the resource,
<id>
is the resource id in 4 digit hexadecimal. When appending resources
to a new or existing resource database,
-.B par
+.B pdbar
will attempt to decode the resource and id of the resource being appended
from the resource filename using this same naming scheme, or you can
explicitly specify the resource and id using the
.I -T
syntax. Here are two invocations of
-.B par
+.B pdbar
that do exactly the same thing: create a new resource database with one
resource which has type = NFNT and id = 256 (0x0100 hexadecimal):
.PP
-.B par c -a \&"resource\&" font.prc Font FONT djwF NFNT0100.bin
+.B pdbar c -a \&"resource\&" font.prc Font FONT djwF NFNT0100.bin
.P
-.B par r font.prc Font FONT djwF -T NFNT 256 myfont
+.B pdbar r font.prc Font FONT djwF -T NFNT 256 myfont
.PP
The following example creates a stream database that can be accessed using
the PalmOS FileStream API. The stream will contain the contents of the
file 'WarAndPeace.txt':
.PP
-.B par c -a \&"stream\&" book.pdb Book DATA djwS WarAndPeace.txt
+.B pdbar c -a \&"stream\&" book.pdb Book DATA djwS WarAndPeace.txt
.PP
In the following example, 'book.pdb' is a stream database. This
example extracts the stream from that database and stores the result
in the output file 'Book.txt':
.PP
-.B par x book.pdb Book.txt
+.B pdbar x book.pdb Book.txt
.SH AUTHOR
-.B par
+.B pdbar
was written by David Williams, djw@djw.org
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