NAME

empdump - Export/import Empire game state

SYNOPSIS

empdump [-chmnvx] [-e configfile] [-i dump-file]

DESCRIPTION

empdump exports and imports game state as plain text.

OPTIONS

-c: Use complete export format: don't omit data import doesn't need.
-e configfile: Use game configuration in configfile.
-h: Help. Print brief usage information and exit.
-i dump-file: Import from dump-file.
-m: Use machine-readable format for export. Import always recognizes both machine-readable and human-readable format.
-n: Dry run, don't actually update game state on import.
-v: Print version information and exit.
-x: Export game state to standard output.

LIMITATIONS

empdump can't export player bmaps, power report, telegrams, announcements, message of the day, no-login message and log files. Exported floating-point values may be inexact. Importing an exported game state may not result in identical data files; besides the loss of floating-point precision just mentioned, coordinates are normalized, and characters beyond a string's terminating zero in a character array are lost.

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