getdata - gets compressed voyager data and pipes it to stdout
SYNOPSIS
getdata
<datafile] start_timeend_time \[\ type\ \[\qf\ \] ] ]
DESCRIPTION
getdata
OPTIONS
- With 0 arguments it reads stdin for list of files to uncompress and write to stdout
-
With 2 to 4 arguments it uses setft to find the data from time_start to end_time of type, vgr or edr.
it then calls batnto1, and possibly itself to sent all the data to stdout.
proc
SEE ALSO
setft
RUN
DIAGNOSTICS
trys to tell why it quits, but the stdout is already used.
BUGS
Should put the error out to the stderr.
getdata is wasteful in sometimes putting more file than necessary through
its recursive calls.
Markup created by unroff 1.0, April 11, 1996.