[MINC-users] mincstats -mask

[Robert VINCENT]

Hi Alex,

This appears to be unchanged.  I hadn't been aware of the problem.

I think adding some kind of default behavior such as -mask_binvalue 1
would not break anything.  But I'm curious to hear other's opinions.

	-bert


On Wed, 20 Jul 2005, Alex ZIJDENBOS wrote:

> A kind soul just alerted me to something possibly confusing with
> mincstats, being that it will (silently) ignore a -mask argument if
> not given at least one of -mask_{floor,ceil,range,binvalue}.
>
> In other words, the call
>
>    mincstats -mask <mask.mnc> -floor <your_favorite_treshold> <in.mnc>
>
> does nothing with <mask.mnc>. Although this is stated in the man page,
> I suspect it is counterintuitive to many people; it seems to me
> mincstats should either do something sensible with the mask (i.e.,
> default to '-mask_binvalue 1'), or barf when given a mask argument
> which is not used.
>
> I have a vague recollection of this being discussed before, but has it
> been fixed in recent releases of minc?
>
> -- A
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