2005.09.17 06:25 "[Tiff] [patch] update tiffdump man page", by Brad Hards
I've been looking at including support for Microsoft's Office Document Imaging format in libtiff. Obviously that involves a lot of use of tiffdump...
I found that the tiffdump manual page doesn't document the -m option. See below for a patch to update it.
Brad
Index: tiffdump.1
=================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/maptools/cvsroot/libtiff/man/tiffdump.1,v retrieving revision 1.1.1.1
diff -u -4 -p -r1.1.1.1 tiffdump.1
--- tiffdump.1 27 Jul 1999 21:50:28 -0000 1.1.1.1
+++ tiffdump.1 17 Sep 2005 06:24:45 -0000
@@ -22,9 +22,9 @@
.\" LIABILITY, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE
.\" OF THIS SOFTWARE.
.\"
.if n .po 0
-.TH TIFFDUMP 1 "October 15, 1995"
+.TH TIFFDUMP 1 "17 September 2005"
.SH NAME
tiffdump \- print verbatim information about
.SM TIFF
files
@@ -62,9 +62,13 @@ does not understand.
.B \-h
Force numeric data to be printed in hexadecimal rather than the
default decimal.
.TP
-.B \-o
+.BI \-m " items"
+Change the number of indirect data items that are printed. By default, +this will be 24.
+.TP
+.BI \-o " offset"
Dump the contents of the
.SM IFD
at the a particular file offset.
The file offset may be specified using the usual C-style syntax;