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)