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.TH SF2DB 1 "04 Nov 1993"
.SH NAME
sf2db \- make a new ascii database ".db" file from an old dct short form report
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B sf2db
.B name
<
.B short_form_rpt
>
.B db_file
.SH AVAILABILITY
The tool in available under Unix from the EPICS application directory 
provided by getrel in release 3.11 or greater.
.SH DESCRIPTION
.LP
This tool reads a dct short form report file from standard in and
writes a ".db" (new ascii database format) file to standard out.  A
.B name
must be given for the database.  The name specified is used to name
the ".database" file when the ".db" file is converted to a binary ".database".
.sp
The output of this tool can be imported to gdct(1) for editting.
.SH "EXAMPLE USAGE"
.LP
sf2db test < old.short.form > new.db
.sp
This command will read old.short.form and produce the file new.db.  When
new.db is fed into db2database(1), a binary database file will be created
named test.database.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR gdct(1),
.BR db2database(1),
.BR dbLoadRecords(3),
.BR dbfile(5),
.sp
.B "GDCT User's Manual"