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5. Using shelly

The program "shelly" is a small example frontend to "libshelly". It simply reads a data file containing a set of parameters, then calculates a shell using "libshelly" and finally writes a 3D object to another file.

Both files have to be specified as arguments to "shelly". If called with a wrong number of arguments "shelly" will print a short help note onto the standard output. It does not accept any switches.

Generally, you should run "shelly" this way:

>shelly infile outfile

Replace infile with the path and name of the file to be read, and outfile with the path and name of the file to be written.

You may start "shelly" without arguments. It will ask for the two filenames, then.

There are example data files in the "shy" subdirectory of the distribution. For information on how to write data files to feed into "shelly", refer to section File Format.


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