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1.1       root        1: .TH ARFF 8
                      2: .CT 1 sa_nonmortals
                      3: .SH NAME
                      4: arff \- read RT11 files
                      5: .SH SYNOPSIS
                      6: .B arff
                      7: [
                      8: .I key
                      9: ]
                     10: [
                     11: .I name ...
                     12: ]
                     13: .SH DESCRIPTION
                     14: .I Arff
                     15: reads and writes files
                     16: on an RT11 volume,
                     17: such as the VAX-11/780 console floppy or 
                     18: 11/750 console tape.
                     19: Its actions are controlled by the
                     20: .I key
                     21: argument, in the manner of
                     22: .IR ar (1).
                     23: Other arguments
                     24: are the names of files
                     25: to be read or written.
                     26: .PP
                     27: The RT11 filesystem restricts names to the character set
                     28: .BR a - z0 - 9.\| ,
                     29: and there are no subdirectories.
                     30: Filename arguments are trimmed to the last pathname element
                     31: and mapped to lower case.
                     32: .PP
                     33: The key must contain one of the letters
                     34: .LR rxdt ,
                     35: which mean the same as in
                     36: .I ar.
                     37: Unlike
                     38: .I ar,
                     39: however,
                     40: .I arff
                     41: may reorder files to fit without moving existing files.
                     42: .PP
                     43: Other key letters are
                     44: .TP
                     45: v
                     46: Verbose.
                     47: .TP
                     48: .B f
                     49: The next argument is the name of the archive instead
                     50: of the default
                     51: .FR /dev/floppy .
                     52: .TP
                     53: .B m
                     54: Omit the DEC-standard sector interleaving algorithm;
                     55: needed when the file isn't a floppy;
                     56: e.g. the 11/750 console cassette.
                     57: .SH FILES
                     58: .F /dev/floppy
                     59: .SH BUGS
                     60: Floppy errors are handled ungracefully.
                     61: .br
                     62: The program is too floppy-dependent.
                     63: Mapping belongs in the device driver,
                     64: or at least shouldn't be the default.

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