Does the spreadsheet need to have a specific extension? I would hope to be able to use OpenOffice spreadsheets as opposed to microsofts spreadsheets

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OO spreadsheets are just fine, even a Google Doc spreadsheet would be fine.

Should we provide the description of the comand also

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A description is not needed at this time.  In fact, given the progress made on other tasks, I'd like to rescope this task to be even more simple.  See my "starting simple" comment here:

http://www.google-melange.com/gci/task/view/google/gci2012/7987215

The same holds true for this task, except that they're just not all sitting in a "bin" directory.  This should report all mged commands we care about:

bin/mged -c test.g info commands 21 | sed 's/ /\n/g' | sort | grep mged | sed 's/_mged_//g' | grep -v mged_

That gives me a list with 317 commands.  Those are the ones to be categorized into no less than 10 groups (but probably many many more).  See the MGED quick reference cheat sheet at http://brlcad.org/wiki/Documentation for a start at command-grouping.

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I did not quite understand the commands for

bin/mged -c test.g info commands 21 | sed 's/ /\n/g' | sort | grep mged | sed 's/_mged_//g' | grep -v mged_

and also how do I access the directory

I've just learned how to compile brl-cad using cmake. You can just ignore the question above :)

Once you compile successfully, you'll be able to run that bin/mged line which will help to itemize all of mged's available commands.

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I'm not sure what to make of your spreadsheet...  Can you explain it for me?  What are the three columns after command supposed to represent?

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I suppose from your response that I'm to infer that the columns represent independent categories that describe the command, ala keywords?  

That's good effort and you went ahead and categorized the commands, so if that's the approach then the remaining work is to categorize the commands that have no category.  Every command should be in at least one of those categories.  How long did it take you to fill out the table thus far?

Also, we'll then need a tally count of how many commands are in which categories.

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The compiling stuffs took the most out of the two days, and I would be able to finish the remaining commands if i were to know what those commands do. The blank commands I could not find through the the "help" command nor through the MGED commands site. What shall I do with those? Or are they commands that are not existing?

Time spent compiling BRL-CAD doesn't count. :)

How long did it take to fill out the spreadsheet?

While many of those commands don't have help, they do have a usage statement if you run them within MGED.  That may help you categorize the remaining ones.

Try that and see if you can get some of the rest.  Submit that again and it should be good.

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The whole spreadsheet took me about a total of four to five hours, but I just think that is nothing compared to the time spent on figuring how to compile. But anyways, I have shrunken the number of missing commands to three: get_solid_keypoint, rate, and select. I have spent my extended time researching each and every missing commands and I think this is the most I could do. 

mged_4 should be the final spreadsheet with three missing commands

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Thank you, Chan.  Nicely done.  We'll likely have a follow-on task defined in a few days, if you're interested, so keep an eye out for it.

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