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| pexpand - expand requested commands in metafile |
| pexpand [ +/-EPDOCSURIlrtmvsp ] file .. |
| Pexpand reads each metafile file in sequence and expands any commands specified in a '+' option, and deletes any commands specified in a '-' option. This is necessary because most drivers will not support many metafile commands such as 'v' (vector string) and 'O', 'C', and 's' (segments). Pexpand will expand '+' instances into the corresponding primitives which are supported, and delete all '-' instances. |
| Certain commands are currently considered basic, and must be supported by all drivers. The commands 'D', 'E', 'S', 'U', 'R', 'l', 'r', and 't' are basic (see metafile(5)). |
| If no input files are specified, the standard input is read. |
| +EPDOCSURIlrtmvsp |
| Expand the requested command(s). |
| -EPDOCSURIlrtmvsp |
| Delete the requested command(s). |
| To expand vector strings and segements, and delete pauses from "meta": |
| pexpand +vOCs -P meta |
| /usr/lib/meta/vchars.mta (see metafile(5)) |
| Greg Ward |
| metafile(5), psort(1) |