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GIFTI_TEST(1)							   User Commands						     GIFTI_TEST(1)

NAME

       gifti_test - test reading/writing a GIFTI dataset

SYNOPSIS

       gifti_test [...]

OPTIONS

       -help  Show usage help.

       -gifti_hist
	      Show giftilib history.

       -gifti_ver
	      Show giftilib version.

       -encoding TYPE
	      Set the data encoding for any output file.

	      TYPE = ASCII	: ASCII encoding

	      TYPE = BASE64	: base64 binary

	      TYPE = BASE64GZIP : base64 compressed binary

       -gfile OUTPUT
	      Write out dataset as gifti image.

       -infile INPUT
	      Specify INPUT as the GIFTI dataset to read.

       -no_data
	      Do not write out data.

       -show  Show final gifti image.

       -slist LEN s0...
	      Restrict output to list of length LEN.

       -verb VERB
	      Set verbose level.

EXAMPLES

       1. read in a GIFTI dataset (verbose, show output?)

	      gifti_test -infile dset.gii

	      gifti_test -infile dset.gii -verb 3

	      gifti_test -infile dset.gii -show

       2. copy a GIFTI dataset (check differences?)

	      gifti_test -infile dset.gii -gfile copy.gii

	      diff dset.gii copy.gii

       3. copy a GIFTI data, but write out only 3 surf indices: 0,4,5

	      gifti_test -infile time_series.gii -gfile ts3.gii -slist 3 0 4 5

SEE ALSO

       Website: http://www.nitrc.org/projects/gifti

AUTHOR

       Richard Reynolds - SSCC, DIRP, NIMH, National Institutes of Health

       This manual page was written by Michael Hanke <michael.hanke@gmail.com>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

gifti_test							     June 2010							     GIFTI_TEST(1)

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