debian man page for hdfcomp

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NAME
       hdfcomp - compress 8-bit raster images in an HDF file

SYNOPSIS
       hdfcomp output-filename [-c|-r|-i] input-filename-1 [-c|-r|-i] input-filename-2...

DESCRIPTION
       hdfcomp	reads RIS8 images from a set of HDF files, compresses them and stores the compressed data in a second HDF file.  If the output HDF
       file exists, the compressed images will be appended to it.

OPTIONS
       -r     No Compression.  Apply no compression to the output data. (the default).

       -c     Run length coding.  Compress the output data using run-length encoding.

       -i     IMCOMP Compression.  Compress the output data using the IMCOMP method.

EXAMPLES
       A directory contains twenty files named "storm001", "storm002", ...  "storm020". Each of these files contains a single RIS8 image. To  com-
       press these images using run-length encoding and store them in a file named "altcomp.hdf", use the following hdfcomp command:

	       hdfcomp allcomp.hdf -c storm*.hdf

SEE ALSO
       hdfpack(1), hdf(5)

								 November 6, 1999							HDFCOMP(1)