infodump(1)

NAME
infodump - data file dumper for infocom format game files

SYNOPSIS
infodump [ -iamostgdf ] [ -c n ] [ -w n ] [ -u file ] story-file [ story-file... ]

DESCRIPTION
Infodump is a program for displaying the contents of an Infocom format story file. It works for V1 to V8 games, modulo the limitations listed below.

OPTIONS
The following options are supported

-i  Show game information in the story file header. This is the default operation for infodump: if not switches are given, then only the header will be displayed.

-a  Show abbreviations.

-m  Show the data file map.

-o  Display information about all objects defined in the story file.

-t  Show the object tree, with names of contained objects displayed indented from the name of the containing object.

-g  Show the verb grammar.

-d  Show the story dictionary

-f  Enable all of the above options (-a, -m, -o, -t, -g and -d)

-s  Display Inform symbolic names in object and grammar displays.

-c n
    The numbers of columns to use when displaying the dictionary.

-w n
    Specifies the display width, used to determine where to word wrap. If n is 0, then no wrapping will be performed.

-u file
    Display symbols from file in object and grammar displays. Use of this option implies -s.

SEE ALSO
check(1), inforead(1), pix2gif(1), txd(1)

AUTHOR
Mark Howell 28 August 1992 howell_ma@movies.enet.dec.com

CURRENT MAINTAINER
Matthew Russotto russotto@pond.com