debian man page for mcv

mcv(1)							       Scotch user's manual							    mcv(1)

NAME
       mcv - mesh file converter

SYNOPSIS
       mcv [options] [imfile] [omfile] [oxfile]

DESCRIPTION
       The mcv program converts Scotch mesh files from and to other external file formats.

       File imfile is converted into mesh file omfile, with optional geometry data being put in geometry file oxfile, if it is available.

       When file names are not specified, data is read from standard input and written to standard output. Standard streams can also be explicitly
       represented by a dash '-'.

       When the proper libraries have been included at compile time, mcv can directly handle compressed meshes, both as input and output. A stream
       is treated as compressed whenever its name is postfixed with a compressed file extension, such as in 'brol.msh.bz2' or '-.gz'. The compres-
       sion formats which can be supported are the bzip2 format ('.bz2'), the gzip format ('.gz'), and the lzma format ('.lzma', on input only).

OPTIONS
       -h     Display some help.

       -iifmt Set format of input mesh file, which can be:

	      bnum   Boeing-Harwell format. This is an elemental matrix format. Only square matrices are supported. In case the file contains sev-
		     eral  matrices, the num parameter allow the user to provide the index of the matrix to convert, starting from 0. When the num
		     parameter is not set, it is assumed to be 0.

	      s      Scotch mesh format.

       -oofmt Set format of output mesh file, which can be:

	      s      Scotch mesh format. This is the only possible choice at the time being.

       -V     Display program version and copyright.

EXAMPLE
       Convert a Harwell-Boeing elemental mesh into a Scotch mesh.

	   $ mcv -ib brol.hb brol.msh

SEE ALSO
       mtst(1), mord(1).

       Scotch user's manual.

AUTHOR
       Francois Pellegrini <francois.pellegrini@labri.fr>

								 February 14, 2011							    mcv(1)