topcat(1)

Tool for OPerations on Catalogues And Tables

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Description

TOPCAT

NAME

topcat - Tool for OPerations on Catalogues And Tables

SYNOPSIS

topcat <flags> [[-f <format>] <table> ...]

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)