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Procedure
Abstract
Required_Reading
Keywords
Brief_I/O
Detailed_Input
Detailed_Output
Parameters
Exceptions
Files
Particulars
Examples
Restrictions
Literature_References
Author_and_Institution
Version
Index_Entries

Procedure

   void dasdc_c ( SpiceInt handle ) 

Abstract

 
   Delete the entire comment area of a previously opened binary 
   DAS file. 
 

Required_Reading

 
   DAS 
 

Keywords

 
   None. 
 

Brief_I/O

 
   Variable  I/O  Description 
   --------  ---  -------------------------------------------------- 
   handle     I   The handle of a binary DAS file opened for writing. 
 

Detailed_Input

 
   handle    The handle of a binary DAS file that is to have its 
             entire comment area deleted. The DAS file should have 
             been opened with write access. 
 

Detailed_Output

 
   None. 
 

Parameters

 
   None. 
 

Exceptions

 
   1)  If the binary DAS file attached to `handle' is not open with 
       write access, an error will be signaled by a routine called 
       by this routine. 
 

Files

 
   See argument `handle' in $ Detailed_Input. 
 

Particulars

 
   Binary DAS files contain an area which is reserved for storing
   annotations or descriptive textual information about the data
   contained in a file. This area is referred to as the ``comment
   area'' of the file. The comment area of a DAS file is a line
   oriented medium for storing textual information. The comment area
   preserves any leading or embedded white space in the line(s) of text
   which are stored, so that the appearance of the information will be
   unchanged when it is retrieved (extracted) at some other time.
   Trailing blanks, however, are NOT preserved, due to the way that
   character strings are represented in standard Fortran 77.
 
   This routine will delete the entire comment area from the binary 
   DAS file attached to `handle'. The size of the binary DAS file will 
   remain unchanged. The space that was used by the comment records 
   is reclaimed. 
 

Examples

 
   Let 
 
         `handle' be the handle for a DAS file which has been opened 
         with write access. 
 
   The call 
 
         dasdc_c ( handle ) 
 
   will delete the entire comment area of the binary DAS file 
   attached to `handle'. 
 

Restrictions

 
   None. 
 

Literature_References

 
   None. 
 

Author_and_Institution

 
   N.J. Bachman   (JPL)
   K.R. Gehringer (JPL) 
 

Version

 
   -CSPICE Version 1.0.0, 11-NOV-2016 (NJB) (KRG)

Index_Entries

 
    delete das comment area 
 

Link to routine dasdc_c source file dasdc_c.c

Wed Apr  5 17:54:31 2017