.TH display "" "" "/rdb Command"
.PC "Write table or list file to standard output"
\fBdisplay < \fItableorlist\fR
.PP
.II "file^copy"
.II "file^write"
.II "copy file"
.II "write file"
.II "standard input"
.II "standard output"
The command
.B display
copies
.I tableorlist
from the standard input to the standard output.
This is not a very useful program, but is a template for the
C interface programs.
If you have its source code,
you have an example of how to process tables and lists
and can modify it for your own programs.
.PP
.II cat
.B display
is slower than the COHERENT command
.B cat
because it does more processing.
.B display
knows about table and list formats, and reads and writes
one row at a time.
.SH "See Also"
COHERENT Lexicon:
.B
cat,
more
.R