Most of the tools in this package either read one or more tables as input, or write one or more tables as output, or both. This section explains what kind of tables the tools can read and write, and how you tell them where to find the tables to operate on.
In most cases input and output table specifications are given by parameters with the following names (or similar ones):
in
ifmt
out
-
"/blank for standard output
ofmt
fits
colfits
votable
cdf
csv
ecsv
ascii
ipac
pds4
mrt
parquet
hapi
feather
gbin
tst
wdc
fits
votable
csv
ecsv
ascii
ipac
parquet
feather
text
html
latex
tst
mirage