PACK_CIS(8)							  PACK_CIS(8)



NAME
       pack_cis - compile PCMCIA Card Information Structures

SYNOPSIS
       pack_cis [-o outfile] infile

DESCRIPTION
       Pack_cis is used to convert a text description of a PCMCIA Card Infor-
       mation Structure (CIS) to its packed binary  representation.   It  can
       parse  a	 reasonably  useful  subset  of	 the  possible	output of the
       dump_cis utility.   The	primary	 use  of  pack_cis  is	to  construct
       replacement  CIS	 files for cards that have incomplete, inaccurate, or
       damaged CIS structures.	Thus, the supported tuple  types  are  mostly
       limited to things that are important for correctly configuring typical
       IO cards.

       By default, the packed data is written to standard output.

FORMAT
       The best way to get started writing CIS descriptions will  be  to  use
       dump_cis	 to  extract the CIS data from a card, and to examine the CIS
       files distributed with the PCMCIA source tree in etc/cis/.

       The basic structure of a CIS is a list of  tuple	 descriptions.	 Any-
       thing following a hash mark (''#'') is treated as a comment.  A multi-
       function CIS can be described with the notation:

	      [common tuple list]
	      mfc {
		[tuple list for function 0]
	      }, {
		[tuple list for function 1]
	      }


OPTIONS
       -o outfile
	      Write the packed tuple data to the specified file.

FILES
       /etc/pcmcia/cis	 Standard location for packed CIS files
AUTHOR
       David Hinds - dahinds@users.sourceforge.net
SEE ALSO
       dump_cis(8), cardmgr(8), pcmcia(5).



pcmcia-cs		     2000/06/12 21:24:49		  PACK_CIS(8)

UNIX/Linux commands referenced on this page:

1. convert
2. dump_cis
3. card
4. as