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BIFFCOPY

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: 16 Mar 1998
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NAME

biffcopy - copy a biff file

SYNTAX

biffcopy [-band <bandspec> [-band <bandspec>]...]
<infile> [<outfile>...]

DESCRIPTION

Copy an imagefile from infileto outfile.If you specify "*" as infile,the program willprompt for an infile name. If you don't specifyoutfile,the program will promt for outfilename.If more than one outfileis specified, the imageis duplicated to all outfiles.

This program is useful when you want to extractone or more bands from an image, when you wantto use it in a pipe or execute it from a program.

OPTIONS

-band <bandspec>is used when only someof the bands should be copied. The bandspecis a list of bands or band-intervals separatedby ":". A band-interval is specified by start-stop.

AUTHOR

Otto Milvang

EXAMPLES

biffcopy mona.img -                ; pipe to stdout
biffcopy - cp.img -                ; copy stdin to stdout
                                    ;  and to file cp.img
biffcopy monacol.img:2 monab2.img  ; copy band 2
biffcopy -band 2:3-1:3 - -         ; copy band 2,3,2,1,3
                                    ; from stdin to stdout

ID

$Id: biffcopy.c,v 1.27 1996/12/27 14:25:42 svein Exp $

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