NAME

tbconcat -- concatenate a list of APPHOT/DAOPHOT STSDAS databases

USAGE

tbconcat tables outtable

PARAMETERS

tables

The list of APPHOT/DAOPHOT STSDAS databases to be concatenated.

outtable

The name of the output APPHOT/DAOPHOT STSDAS database.

task = "TASK"

The name of the keyword whose value is the name of the task which wrote the database.

DESCRIPTION

TBCONCAT is a simple task which accepts a list of APPHOT/DAOPHOT STSDAS database files and concatenates them into one resultant database. TBCONCAT checks that all the file are indeed APPHOT/DAOPHOT STSDAS database files and that they were all written by the same task before performing the concatenation.

TBCONCAT is a simple script built around the STSDAS TABLES package task TMERGE. Users should consult the manual page for TMERGE for more details about the inner working of the task.

EXAMPLES

1. Concatenate a list of DAOPHOT package GROUP output tables into a single file.

   pt> tbconcat m92r.grp.1,m92r.grp.2,m92r.grp.3 m92rall.grp.1

TIME REQUIREMENTS

BUGS

SEE ALSO

ptools.txconcat,ptools.pconcat,tables.tmerge,concatenate