osf1 man page for cv

CV(1)							      General Commands Manual							     CV(1)

NAME

       cv - convert between metafile formats

SYNOPSIS

       cv [ -r ][ file ..  ]

DESCRIPTION

       Cv  reads  each human readable metafile file in sequence and converts it to a binary form.  If the option -r is specified, the reverse con-
       version is performed.

       If no input files are specified, the standard input is read.

EXAMPLE

       To convert the binary file meta.bin to its human-readable equivalent, and put the result in meta.human

	 cv -r meta.bin > meta.human

AUTHOR

       Greg Ward

SEE ALSO

       meta(3), metafile(5), pexpand(1), psort(1)

RADIANCE
							      6/24/98								     CV(1)