.TH CHECKSUB 1 2001-10-03 NCBI "NCBI Tools User's Manual"
.SH NAME
checksub \- a validator for NCBI ASN.1 Seq-submit data
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B checksub
[\|\fB\-\fP\|]
[\|\fB\-b\fP\|]
\fB\-i\fP\ \fIfilename\fP
[\|\fB\-o\fP\ \fIfilename\fP\|]
.SH DESCRIPTION
\fBchecksub\fP attempts to read a file purporting to contain an NCBI
Seq-submit record in text or binary form and print it back out.  If
the file is invalid, \fBchecksub\fP reports an error instead of
producing normal output.
.SH OPTIONS
A summary of options is included below.
.TP
\fB\-\fP
Print usage message
.TP
\fB\-b\fP
Input data is binary
.TP
\fB\-i\fP\ \fIfilename\fP
Read input from \fIfilename\fP
.TP
\fB\-o\fP\ \fIfilename\fP
Print data (in text form) to \fIfilename\fP rather than stdout.
.SH AUTHOR
The National Center for Biotechnology Information.