.TH headoff "" "" "/rdb Command"
.PC "Remove an /rdb head from both table and list files"
\fBheadoff < \fItableorlist\fR
.PP
.II table^behead
.II "behead table"
.II "remove header"
.II "head line^remove"
.II "dash line^remove"
The command
.B headoff
``beheads''
.IR tableorlist ;
that is, it strips off its header.
Tables have two-line column heads; list files have only
one line that consists of a single newline character.
The COHERENT command
.B "tail +3"
does the same thing for a table; and
.B "tail +2"
for a list.
.PP
The command
.B union
uses
.B headoff
to assemble files.
Only the first file keeps its head.
.SH Example
To behead the table
.BR inventory ,
type:
.DM
	headoff < inventory
.DE
.PP
This writes something like the following on the standard output:
.DM
    1        3    50      150   rubber gloves
    2      100     5      500   test tubes
    3        5    80      400   clamps
    4       23    19      437   plates
    5       99    24     2376   cleaning cloth
    6       89   147    13083   bunsen burners
    7        5   175      875   scales
.DE
.SH "See Also"
.B
headon,
insertdash,
union
.R
.br
COHERENT Lexicon:
.B
head,
tail
.R