1[4mman[24m(1)                                         citydecoder
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4[1mNAME[0m
5       citydecoder  ‐  Generate  city/site  data  files  for  use
6with SPLAT from
7       U.S.  Census  Bureau  files  of  Incorporated  Places/Cen‐
8sus  Designated
9       Places
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11[1mSYNOPSIS[0m
12       [1mcitydecoder [22mfile
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14[1mDESCRIPTION[0m
15       [1mcitydecoder [22mis an utility that  reads  U.S.  Census
16Bureau files of Incor‐
17       porated   Places/Census   Designated Places, and generates
18city/site data
19       files for use with SPLAT! software.  Files  for  use  with
20this utility are
21       available   for   download    free    of    charge   from:
22http://www.cen‐
23       sus.gov/geo/www/cob/bdy_files.html.
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25       Please  select  the  ARC/INFO  Ungenerate (ASCII) Metadata
26Cartographic
27       Boundary  Files from this site and unzip them prior to im‐
28porting them to
29       citydecoder. U.S. Census files are cataloged  by  the  two
30digit FIPS code
31       for  the  region (state) they represent. citydecoder takes
32as an argument
33       the two‐letter file prefix plus the FIPS code of the   re‐
34gion  or  state
35       being processed.
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39       citydecoder pl34
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43       [4m/usr/bin/citydecoder[0m
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45[1mSEE ALSO[0m
46       [1msplat[22m(1),
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48[1mBUGS[0m
49       No known bugs at this time.
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51[1mAUTHOR[0m
52       Sindre Pedersen Bjordal (foolish@guezz.net)
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54[1mHISTORY[0m
55       2007 ‐ Text copyed from README
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