1ERF(1)                    BSD General Commands Manual                   ERF(1)
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NAME

4     erf — BioWare ERF (.erf, .mod, .nwm, .sav) archive packer
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SYNOPSIS

7     erf [options] output_archive [file ...]
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DESCRIPTION

10     erf packs files together into a BioWare ERF archive, found in many
11     BioWare Games as files with the extension .erf, .mod, .nwm or .sav.
12     Moreover, in some games, a .rim file might be an ERF instead of a RIM.
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14     There's several different versions of ERFs.  This tool supports only ver‐
15     sion V1.0, as used by Neverwinter Nights, Knights of the Old Republic,
16     Knights of the Old Republic II, Jade Empire and The Witcher.
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18     Unsupported Features:
19     ·   Generation of archives with stripped filenames.
20     ·   Generation of zlib-compressed archives.
21     ·   Generation of Blowfish-encrypted archives.
22     ·   Generation of XOR-encrypted archives.
23     ·   Setting of a description for archives.
24     ·   Usage of paths in archives.
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OPTIONS

27     -h
28     --help
29           Show a help text and exit.
30     --version
31           Show version information and exit.
32     --erf
33           Set archive ID to ERF.
34     --mod
35           Set archive ID to MOD.
36     --hak
37           Set archive ID to HAK.
38     --sav
39           Set archive ID to SAV.
40     --jade
41           Unalias file types according to Jade Empire rules.
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43           Jade Empire reuses a few file extension IDs differently than other
44           BioWare games.  To correctly write Jade Empire ERF archives, use
45           this flag.
46     output_archive
47           The ERF archive to be written.
48     files
49           One or more files to pack together.
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EXAMPLES

52     Pack some files together into an ERF archive:
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54           $ erf archive.erf file1.dat file2.dat file3.dat
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56     Pack some files together into a SAV archive:
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58           $ erf --sav archive.sav file1.dat file2.dat file3.dat
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SEE ALSO

61     unerf(1), unherf(1)
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63     More information about the xoreos project can be found on its website:
64     https://xoreos.org/.
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AUTHORS

67     This program is part of the xoreos-tools package, which in turn is part
68     of the xoreos project, and was written by the xoreos team.  Please see
69     the AUTHORS file for details.
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