Site Menu     vanilla Vmerge Vfix Vcvt Vtxt Vcol Vmakelabel Downloads

Vanilla  Last modified: 5/14/2005 Maintainer: themisweb@asu.edu Vanilla News 07/13/04 New version of Vcol 1.4 released. Fixes memory issues while processing character fields. Fixes writing of float data under Linux platform.   01/07/02 Vanilla version 3.4.12 released. Emissivity channels 149-286 are available now.   10/05/00 New version of vanilla (3.4.6). This version includes the new indexing code, which should still be considered alpha.   8/19/00 Vcvt modified to look for endian-ness (Version 1.01)

Vanilla Resources

Vanilla is a tool that will allow you to treat table files conforming to the Planetary Data System standard as a hierarchal database and perform simple queries across one or more tables and file segments.

If you simply want to use vanilla to extract data from a conforming dataset, you will likely find all the information you need in the user's manual. If however, you are trying to write vanilla conformant files, you most certainly need to be familar with the PDS Standards being used.

On this site, you'll find links to basic documentation on vanilla and its related utilities. Included at the bottom of this page are links to binaries and sources.

vanilla

download

The vanilla database query and extraction tool.

• Vanilla usage summary
• Documentation in Word format
• Documentation in HTML format
• Documentation in PDF format

Vmerge

download

Merge data into an existing vanilla database.

If you extract data, and then modify it, Vmerge can be used to reinsert those modifications back to the original data.

• Vmerge usage summary

Vfix

download

Fixes the padding and offsets on a fragment file whose label has been modified.

A label on a fragment file is padded and sized programmatically. Manual changes to label data can thus result in an invalid fragment file. After modifying a label, run Vfix on the fragment file to recalculate the necessary padding and offsets (thereby "fixing" the fragment file).

• Usage: "Vfix filename"

Vcvt

download

Converts a C struct definition into a vanilla fmt file. Uses stdin/stdout for input/output. C-style comments after the struct fields are converted to field descriptions in the fmt file.

Vcol

download

Creates a new datafile based on a new fmt specification, populating the new file with data from an old datafile.

• Vcol usage summary

Vmakelabel

download

Takes a binary datafile and adds (in-place) a label to it.

Verbose mode may be toggled with the -v option. All other arguments are self-explanatory. NOTE: It's important that key names be included in double and single quotes, exactly as shown.

• Usage: Vmakelabel [-v] [-name table-name -keys "'key1', 'key2', 'key3', ..." [-fmt fmt-file]] dat-file

The first line of the file should contain column headings. Column headings that begin with a tilde (~) are marked as key fields, as are any fields specified on the command-line using the -k option. Doesn't handle array fields. Judges field lengths based only on the data encountered, and is thus inappropriate to use for creating multiple fragment files of a single table.

• Usage: Vtxt [-d delimiter] [-k 'key1, key2, ...'] textfile

Binaries

Source Code