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TOPCAT(1) |
NAME¶
topcat - Tool for OPerations on Catalogues And Tables
SYNOPSIS¶
topcat <flags> [[-f <format>] <table>
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DESCRIPTION¶
TOPCAT is an interactive graphical viewer and editor for tabular data. Its aim
is to provide most of the facilities that astronomers need for analysis and
manipulation of source catalogues and other tables, though it can be used for
non-astronomical data as well. It understands a number of different
astronomically important formats (including FITS and VOTable) and more formats
can be added.
OPTIONS¶
- -f <format>
- File format. Auto-detected formats: fits-plus, colfits-plus,
colfits-basic, fits, votable
- All known formats: fits-plus, colfits-plus, colfits-basic, fits, votable,
ascii, csv, tst, ipac, wdc
- -verbose
- Increase verbosity of reports to console
- -debug
- Add debugging information to console log messages
- -demo
- Start with demo data
- -running
- Use existing TOPCAT instance if one is running
- -memory
- Use memory storage for tables
- -disk
- Use disk backing store for large tables
- -samp
- Use SAMP for tool interoperability
- -[no]hub
- [don't] run internal SAMP hub
- -exthub
- Run external SAMP hub
- -noserv
- Don't run any services (SAMP)
- -help
- Print help message and exit
- -version
- Print component versions etc and exit
- -stilts <args>
- Run STILTS, not TOPCAT
- -jsamp <args>
- Run JSAMP not TOPCAT
- Useful Java flags:
- -classpath jar1:jar2..
- Specify additional classes
- -XmxnnnM
- use nnn megabytes of memory
- -Dname=value
- Set system property
Properties¶
Useful system properties (-Dname=value - lists are
colon-separated):
- java.io.tmpdir
- temporary filespace directory
- jdbc.drivers
- JDBC driver classes
- jel.classes
- custom algebraic function classes
- jel.classes.activation
- custom action function classes
- star.connectors
- custom remote filestore classes
- startable.load.dialogs
- custom load dialogue classes
- startable.readers
- custom table input handlers
- startable.writers
- custom table output handlers
- startable.storage
- storage policy
- mark.workaround
- work around mark/reset bug (see topcat -jsamp -help for
more)
VERSION¶
This is the Debian version of topcat. See /usr/share/doc/topcat/README.Debian
for differences.
AUTHOR¶
Mark Taylor (Bristol University)
