vdcomp(1) MachTen Programmer’s 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 using Lightspeed C version
3.0. When converting to other systems, check for porta-
bility 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 std-
out 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 file-
names 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.

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