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.TH ACPIBIN 1 "January 23, 2013"
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.SH NAME
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acpibin \- ACPI binary AML file utility
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.B acpibin
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.RI [ <option> ... ]
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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This manual page briefly documents the
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.B acpibin
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command. The option list is taken from the acpibin interactive help.
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.PP
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.B acpibin
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is a command provided to perform some basic and common operations on
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AML binary files.
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.PP
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Much more detailed documentation may be found at
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http://www.acpica.org/documentation/.
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.SH OPTIONS
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.PP
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.TP
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.B \-c <file1> <file2>
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Compare two binary AML files
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.TP
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.B \-d <in> <out>
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Dump AML binary to text file
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.TP
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.B \-e <sig> <in> <out>
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Extract binary AML table from acpidump file
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.TP
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.B \-h <file>
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Display table header for binary AML file
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.TP
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.B \-s <file>
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Update checksum for binary AML file
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.TP
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.B \-t
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Terse mode
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.SH AUTHOR
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acpibin was written by Robert Moore <robert.moore@intel.com>.
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.PP
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This manual page was written by Al Stone <ahs3@redhat.com> for the
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Fedora project (but may be used by others).