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3.1 Description

SPMquotcall_udi" is a UNIX command-line interface to the UDI routines which allows one to operate upon data files using the UDI library routines, without needing to write a C program. Data is input in from zero to three files in either ASCII or binary form. The first file is read from the standard input, and the other two files can be specified with flags on the command line. Input scalars and flags to the UDI function can also be specified on the command line. The output from the call to the UDI function is written to the standard output in ASCII or binary form. Any output scalars are written to the standard error output, although it is an exceptional case where a UDI function will output anything except a vector or matrix. It's possible to start reading from the input files at an offset and to read only a specified number of data elements. The standard UDI input/output routines are used to read and write the data files, with the default file format being SPMquotUDI_FILE_BIN". With flags it's possible to specify SPMquotUDI_FILE_ASCII" and SPMquotUDI_FILE_ASCII_N" formats for either input or output. One can specify an increment on the input files as if one were using windows.


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Diemo Schwarz
1999-03-04