MCATS

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: FEBRUARY 2002
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NAME

mcats - a modular catalog system

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

MCatS is a Modular Catalog System. The basic idea is to have several modules (shared libraries) that are dynamicly loaded on demand. Lets say you want to scan a CD-ROM media and store it in a database, you just specify that you want to read from cd and output to database. By it's flexibility it makes it very easy to convert between different formats, like between old gtktalog and new gtktalog format.

OPTIONS

-h | --help

Display program usage, and exit

-v | --version

This will display the current version of MCatS, and exit

-l | --list

This will display which modules is avaible and what the functionallity is along with a description.

-i module | --input module

Input should be taken from module. Where module is the shortname of the input module.

Every input module have it's own options that can be set, for information about these please refeare to the correct manpage, mcats_<module>(1). Another way is to simply use the -h option to the input module like:

mcats -i cdinput -h

The -h option will be overwritten by the modules since it's after the -i option and before any -o option.

-o module | --output module

Output should be given to module. Where module is the shortname of the output module.

Every output module have it's own options that can be set, for information about these please refeare to the correct manpage, mcats_<module>(1). Another way is to simply use the -h option to the output module like:

mcats -o stdout -h

The -h option will be overwritten by the modules since it's after the -o option and before any -i option.

BUGS

Since this is the initial release of mcats there will probably be alot of bugs. Please report any bugs to <bug@mcats.net>.

AUTHOR

Pehr Johansson <pehr@mcats.net>
http://mcats.net/

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Time: 18:41:08 GMT, November 18, 2002