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vdcomp(1)		     General Commands Manual		       vdcomp(1)

Name
     vdcomp - decompress a compressed PDS image

Synopsis
     vdcomp [ infile ] [ outfile ] [ format-code ]

Description
     The vdcomp program reads a variable length compressed PDS image and outputs
     a	fixed  length  uncompressed  image file in PDS format with labels, image
     histogram, engineering table, line header table  and  an  image  with  PDS,
     FITS, VICAR or no labels.

     If used on a non-byte-swapped machine the image histogram is un-swapped.

Options
     Vdcomp  will  prompt  for any options that are not supplied on the command-
     line.

     infile
	    The name of compressed image file.

     outfile
	    The name of uncompressed image file.

     format-code
	    Select from the following list:
		   1 - SFDU/PDS format [default]
		   2 - FITS format
		   3 - VICAR format
		   4 - unlabelled binary array

Limitations
     This program has been tested on a VAX 780 (VMS 4.6), SUN Workstation  (UNIX
     4.2, release 3.4), an IBM PC (MICROSOFT 5.1 compiler) and Macintosh IIx us-
     ing  Lightspeed C version 3.0.  When converting to other systems, check for
     portability conflicts.

Credits
     This program uses Kris Becker's subroutine DECOMP.C (which is  included  in
     this program in a shortened version).

History
     bradley@cis.upenn.edu 06-23-94 ansi-fied program

     datri@convex.com,	11-15-91  added  recognition  of  - as stdout for output
     filename; disabled various messages; directed  messages  to  stderr;  added
     exit status

     DEC89 Modified program to handle both Voyager and Viking images.

     OCT89  Converted  Voyager decompression program to handle Viking compressed
     images.  Changed obuf to 'unsigned' to simplify computation of checksum.

     AUG89 Added code to get command line arguments  for  filenames  and  output
     format;  routines	to free memory used by the Huffman tree); fixed the SFDU
     label output length; and modified the I/O routines so  that  the  open  for
     Host type 2 uses binary I/O.

     JUN89 Fixed READVAR, to get length on 16-bit unswapped hosts.

     JUL88  C  driver  to  decompress standard Voyager Compressed images by Mike
     Martin 1989/12/02.

XV GITHUB REPOSITORY
     The source code for this release of the XV software can be found on  GitHub
     at <https://github.com/jasper-software/xv>.

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