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)