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1 <refmeta>
2 <refentrytitle>dump3d</refentrytitle>
3 <manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
4 </refmeta>
6 <refnamediv>
7 <refname>dump3d</refname>
8 <refpurpose>dump <filename>.3d</filename> file contents in textual format
9 </refpurpose>
10 </refnamediv>
12 <refsynopsisdiv>
13 <cmdsynopsis>
14 <command>dump3d</command>
15 <arg choice="opt">--survey=SURVEY</arg>
16 <arg choice="opt">--rewind</arg>
17 <arg choice="opt">--show-dates</arg>
18 <arg choice="opt">--legs</arg>
19 <arg choice="req">PROCESSED_SURVEY_DATA_FILE</arg>
20 </cmdsynopsis>
21 </refsynopsisdiv>
23 <refsect1><title>Description</title>
25 <Para>
26 Dump out the entries in a processed survey data file - useful for debugging,
27 and also provides a textual format which is fairly easy to parse if you want
28 to write a simple script to pull out information from a file.
29 </Para>
31 <Para>
32 Note that this tool can actually be used to dump any format the "img" library
33 can read, not just Survex <filename>.3d</filename> files.
34 </Para>
35 </refsect1>