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6NNAAMMEE
7       citydecoder  ‐  Generate  city/site data files  files  for
8use with SPLAT
9       from  U.S. Census Bureau files of Incorporated Places/Cen‐
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14       cciittyyddeeccooddeerr file
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17       cciittyyddeeccooddeerr is an utility that reads  U.S.  Census  Bureau
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19       porated  Places/Census  Designated  Places,  and generates
20city/site  data
21       files  for  use  with SPLAT! software.  Files for use with
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23       are   available   for   download   free  of  charge  from:
24http://www.cen‐
25       sus.gov/geo/www/cob/bdy_files.html.
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27       Please  select  the  ARC/INFO  Ungenerate (ASCII) Metadata
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29       Boundary  Files from this site and unzip them prior to im‐
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31       citydecoder. U.S. Census files are cataloged  by  the  two
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33       for  the region (state) they represent.  citydecoder takes
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35       ment  the  two‐letter  file  prefix plus the FIPS code  of
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51       No known bugs at this time.
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54       Sindre Pedersen Bjrdal (foolish@guezz.net)
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57       2007 ‐ Text copyed from README
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