Directives

Sets of directives have the following format:

D    directives

An arbitrary number of directives can be included on each line. They must be separated by one or more spaces. Each directive is specified using the notation `directive_name=value'. The individual directives are listed in Table  and described below.

Table: Directives

Directive	Description	Default
FILE	name of the file containing the table	§
POSITION	method of specifying column positions	COLUMN
SKIP	number of header records to skip	0

§

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either specify FILE or include the table in the description file