--- ray/doc/man/man1/rlam.1 2007/09/04 17:36:41 1.5 +++ ray/doc/man/man1/rlam.1 2016/03/24 18:48:28 1.8 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" RCSid "$Id: rlam.1,v 1.5 2007/09/04 17:36:41 greg Exp $" +.\" RCSid "$Id: rlam.1,v 1.8 2016/03/24 18:48:28 greg Exp $" .TH RLAM 1 7/8/97 RADIANCE .SH NAME rlam - laminate records from multiple files @@ -7,13 +7,21 @@ rlam - laminate records from multiple files [ .B \-tS ][ +.B \-u +][ .B \-iaN | .B \-ifN | .B \-idN | +.B \-iiN +| .B \-iwN +| +.B \-ibN +][ +.B "\-in M" ] input1 input2 .. .SH DESCRIPTION @@ -42,10 +50,15 @@ option may be used to indicated binary IEEE 32-bit flo Similarly, the .I \-id and -.I \-iw +.I \-ii options may be used to indicate binary 64-bit doubles or integer words, respectively. -If an number is immediately follows any of these options, then it +The +.I \-iw +option specifies 2-byte short words, and the +.I \-ib +option specifies bytes. +If a number is immediately follows any of these options, then it indicates that multiple such values are expected for each record. For example, .I \-if3 @@ -58,8 +71,17 @@ For binary input formts, no number implies one value p For anything other than EOL-separated input, the default tab separator is reset to the empty string. .PP +If a +.I \-in +option is given with a positive integer argument, this will be the +maximum number of records that will be read or produced by +.I rlam. +.PP A hyphen ('-') by itself can be used to indicate the standard input, and may appear multiple times. +The +.I \-u +option forces output after each record (i.e., one run through inputs). .SH EXAMPLE To join files output1 and output2, separated by a comma: .IP "" .2i