--- ray/doc/man/man1/rlam.1 2019/07/04 17:36:04 1.9 +++ ray/doc/man/man1/rlam.1 2019/07/20 00:57:43 1.12 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" RCSid "$Id: rlam.1,v 1.9 2019/07/04 17:36:04 greg Exp $" +.\" RCSid "$Id: rlam.1,v 1.12 2019/07/20 00:57:43 greg Exp $" .TH RLAM 1 7/8/97 RADIANCE .SH NAME rlam - laminate records from multiple files @@ -33,10 +33,11 @@ additional .I \-t options in between each file name. Note that there is no space between this option and its argument. +If no argument is given, then a newline is assumed. If none of the input files uses an ASCII separator, then no end-of-line character will be printed, either. .PP -An input is either a stream or a command. +An input is either a file or a command. Commands are given in quotes, and begin with an exclamantion point ('!'). If the inputs do not have the same number of records, then shorter files will stop contributing to the output as they @@ -58,7 +59,7 @@ The 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 +If a number immediately follows any of these options, then it indicates that multiple such values are expected for each record. For example, .I \-if3 @@ -85,7 +86,7 @@ input, and may appear multiple times. The .I \-u option forces output after each record (i.e., one run through inputs). -.SH EXAMPLE +.SH EXAMPLES To join files output1 and output2, separated by a comma: .IP "" .2i rlam \-t, output1 output2