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COMPFACE(1)		     General Commands Manual		     COMPFACE(1)

NAME
     compface, uncompface - compress and expand 48x48x1 face image files

SYNOPSIS
     compface [ infile [ outfile ] ] ...

     uncompface [ infile [ outfile ] ] ...

DESCRIPTION
     compface  is  a  filter for generating highly compressed representations of
     48x48x1 face image files.	uncompface is an inverse filter  which	performs
     an  inverse  transformation  with	no  loss of data.  The algorithm used is
     highly tuned for its purpose and achieves better than a five  to  one  com-
     pression  ratio  on  average.   Arguments operate identically for both pro-
     grammes.  The first argument, if present, causes input to be taken from the
     named file instead of from standard input unless it is the string ``-''.  A
     second argument, if present, causes output to go to the named file  instead
     of  to  standard output unless it is the string ``-''.  Subsequent pairs of
     arguments may be used to specify further pairs of input and output files.

     The input format for compface (and the output format for uncompface) is  48
     lines  each  of  3  sixteen bit hexadecimal integers, comma terminated in C
     initialiser style.  The output format of compface (and the input format for
     uncompface) is some number of lines made up of a space followed  by  print-
     able  characters  (in  the range ``!'' to ``~'' inclusive).  The first line
     contains 72 characters and following lines  contain  79  characters  except
     that the last line may be short.

     The  amount of compression obtained varies between face image files but the
     output of compface averages less than 200 characters.  The  average  number
     of output lines is three.

OPTIONS
     -X 	 The same as uncompface | ikon2xbm. Usefull for exmh!

DIAGNOSTICS
     Exit status is normally 0.  Possible errors include IO errors when opening,
     reading or writing files, format errors in compface input files and invalid
     arguments.  Each results in an explanatory message on standard error and an
     exit status of 1.	A warning will be produced if compface detects extra in-
     put data.

BUGS
     Nominating standard input as input more than once does not work.

SEE ALSO
     Compface(3)

				 15 January 2002		     COMPFACE(1)

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