[VoxBo] question about merge3d and preprocessing script

[Daniel Kimberg]

Ranjani wrote:
> I noticed that merge3d now lives in /usr/local/VoxBo/oldbin. But I was
> wondering what it has been replaced with, and whether I should be
> using its replacement instead?

The short answer is that the new way to do this is going to be:

  vbim -files in1 in2 ... -product -write out

Where in1 etc. is as many input files as you like and out is your output file.

Slightly longer answer is that vbimagemunge replaced merge3d a while ago, but I only recently officially retired merge3d (without telling anyone, sorry!).  Even more recently, I renamed vbimagemunge to vbim, and changed the argument structure slightly.  vbimagemunge isn't going to be obsoleted any time soon, but you may as well go straight to vbim in your scripts.  The help for vbim hasn't been updated, but you can probably guess from the above how it works in general.

Just a minute ago I copied the old merge3d back into the bin directory, so your scripts should work again, at least until the next time I update things.

dan