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.TH ACPIBIN 1 "January 23, 2013"
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.SH NAME
acpibin \- ACPI binary AML file utility
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B acpibin
.RI [ <option> ... ]

.SH DESCRIPTION
This manual page briefly documents the
.B acpibin
command. The option list is taken from the acpibin interactive help.
.PP
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.B acpibin
is a command provided to perform some basic and common operations on
AML binary files.
.PP
Much more detailed documentation may be found at
http://www.acpica.org/documentation/.

.SH OPTIONS

.PP
.TP
.B \-c <file1> <file2>
Compare two binary AML files
.TP
.B \-d <in> <out>
Dump AML binary to text file
.TP
.B \-e <sig> <in> <out>
Extract binary AML table from acpidump file
.TP
.B \-h <file>
Display table header for binary AML file
.TP
.B \-s <file>
Update checksum for binary AML file
.TP
.B \-t
Terse mode

.SH AUTHOR
acpibin was written by Robert Moore <robert.moore@intel.com>.
.PP
This manual page was written by Al Stone <ahs3@redhat.com> for the
Fedora project (but may be used by others).