initimcat - Create image catalog and subdirectory in user specified location

SYNOPSIS

initimcat [ parameter=value ... ]

Parameter is: put_catalog.

initimcat creates an empty image catalog and corresponding subdirectory in a user-specified location. The default location is $PASSDIR, if that environment variable is defined. Otherwise the default location is the current working directory.

The name of the image catalog file is Imagecat. The name of the corresponding subdirectory is Imcatdir. Neither Imagecat nor Imcatdir should exist prior to running initimcat; otherwise the function aborts. The contents of Imagecat and Imcatdir are discused in imagecat.

A given user can have several image catalogs. Users can share image catalogs.

PARAMETERS

put_catalog

This is the name of the directory where the image catalog and corresponding subdirectory are to be located. The default location is $PASSDIR, if that environment variable is defined. Otherwise, the default location is ".".

FILES

Imagecat, Imcatdir

EXAMPLES

The following example will create Imagecat & Imcatdir using the default.

% initimcat
put_catalog    : char(255) ? [/proj/terascan/pass]
%

SEE ALSO

image_catalog, addimcat, delimcat, listimcat, packimcat, imagecat

NOTES

The format of a processed image catalog file is described in imagecat.

Last Update: $Date: 1999/05/10 20:14:27 $