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WRJPGCOM(1)		     General Commands Manual		     WRJPGCOM(1)

NAME
     wrjpgcom - insert text comments into a JPEG file

SYNOPSIS
     wrjpgcom [ -replace ] [ -comment text ] [ -cfile name ] [ filename ]

DESCRIPTION
     wrjpgcom  reads  the named JPEG/JFIF file, or the standard input if no file
     is named, and generates a new JPEG/JFIF file on standard output.  A comment
     block is added to the file.

     The JPEG standard allows "comment" (COM) blocks  to  occur  within  a  JPEG
     file.   Although  the  standard doesn't actually define what COM blocks are
     for, they are widely used to hold user-supplied text  strings.   This  lets
     you add annotations, titles, index terms, etc to your JPEG files, and later
     retrieve  them  as text.  COM blocks do not interfere with the image stored
     in the JPEG file.	The maximum size of a COM block is 64K, but you can have
     as many of them as you like in one JPEG file.

     wrjpgcom adds a COM block, containing text you provide,  to  a  JPEG  file.
     Ordinarily,  the  COM block is added after any existing COM blocks; but you
     can delete the old COM blocks if you wish.

OPTIONS
     Switch names may be abbreviated, and are not case sensitive.

     -replace
	    Delete any existing COM blocks from the file.

     -comment text
	    Supply text for new COM block on command line.

     -cfile name
	    Read text for new COM block from named file.

     If you have only one line of comment text to add, you can provide it on the
     command line with -comment.  The  comment	text  must  be	surrounded  with
     quotes  so that it is treated as a single argument.  Longer comments can be
     read from a text file.

     If you give neither -comment nor -cfile, then wrjpgcom will read  the  com-
     ment text from standard input.  (In this case an input image file name MUST
     be  supplied, so that the source JPEG file comes from somewhere else.)  You
     can enter multiple lines, up to 64KB worth.  Type an end-of-file  indicator
     (usually control-D) to terminate the comment text entry.

     wrjpgcom  will not add a COM block if the provided comment string is empty.
     Therefore -replace -comment "" can be used to delete all COM blocks from  a
     file.

EXAMPLES
     Add a short comment to in.jpg, producing out.jpg:

	    wrjpgcom -c "View of my back yard" in.jpg > out.jpg

     Attach a long comment previously stored in comment.txt:

	    wrjpgcom in.jpg < comment.txt > out.jpg

     or equivalently

	    wrjpgcom -cfile comment.txt < in.jpg > out.jpg

SEE ALSO
     cjpeg(1), djpeg(1), jpegtran(1), rdjpgcom(1)

AUTHOR
     Independent JPEG Group

				  15 June 1995			     WRJPGCOM(1)

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