NAME

       mcv - mesh file converter

SYNOPSIS

       mcv [options] [imfile] [omfile] [oxfile]

DESCRIPTION

       The mcv program converts Scotch mesh files from and to other external file formats.

       File  imfile  is converted into mesh file omfile, with optional geometry data being put in
       geometry file oxfile, if it is available.

       When file names are not specified, data  is  read  from  standard  input  and  written  to
       standard output. Standard streams can also be explicitly represented by a dash '-'.

       When  the  proper  libraries  have  been included at compile time, mcv can directly handle
       compressed meshes, both as input and output. A stream is treated  as  compressed  whenever
       its  name  is  postfixed  with  a  compressed file extension, such as in 'brol.msh.bz2' or
       '-.gz'. The compression formats which can be supported are the bzip2 format ('.bz2'),  the
       gzip format ('.gz'), and the lzma format ('.lzma', on input only).

OPTIONS

       -h     Display some help.

       -iifmt Set format of input mesh file, which can be:

              bnum   Boeing-Harwell  format.  This  is  an  elemental  matrix format. Only square
                     matrices are supported. In case the file contains several matrices, the  num
                     parameter  allow  the  user  to  provide the index of the matrix to convert,
                     starting from 0. When the num parameter is not set, it is assumed to be 0.

              s      Scotch mesh format.

       -oofmt Set format of output mesh file, which can be:

              s      Scotch mesh format. This is the only possible choice at the time being.

       -V     Display program version and copyright.

EXAMPLE

       Convert a Harwell-Boeing elemental mesh into a Scotch mesh.

           $ mcv -ib brol.hb brol.msh

SEE ALSO

       mtst(1), mord(1).

       Scotch user's manual.

AUTHOR

       Francois Pellegrini <francois.pellegrini@labri.fr>

                                        February 14, 2011                                  mcv(1)