c129cbb4bcff23cb2e4e1e991656488b90d65037
galt
  Thu Apr 19 14:05:46 2012 -0700
improving the help msg for vf b2bb hglb
diff --git src/utils/bedToBigBed/bedToBigBed.c src/utils/bedToBigBed/bedToBigBed.c
index e6b7111..edac448 100644
--- src/utils/bedToBigBed/bedToBigBed.c
+++ src/utils/bedToBigBed/bedToBigBed.c
@@ -28,32 +28,36 @@
 {
 errAbort(
   "bedToBigBed v. %s - Convert bed file to bigBed. (BigBed version: %d)\n"
   "usage:\n"
   "   bedToBigBed in.bed chrom.sizes out.bb\n"
   "Where in.bed is in one of the ascii bed formats, but not including track lines\n"
   "and chrom.sizes is two column: <chromosome name> <size in bases>\n"
   "and out.bb is the output indexed big bed file.\n"
   "Use the script: fetchChromSizes to obtain the actual chrom.sizes information\n"
   "from UCSC, please do not make up a chrom sizes from your own information.\n"
   "The in.bed file must be sorted by chromosome,start,\n"
   "  to sort a bed file, use the unix sort command:\n"
   "     sort -k1,1 -k2,2n unsorted.bed > sorted.bed\n"
   "\n"
   "options:\n"
-  "   -type=bedN[+[P]]  - Bed N is between 3 and 15,\n"
-  "                         optional (+) if extra \"bedPlus\" fields, optional P specifies the number of extra fields \n"
+  "   -type=bedN[+[P]] : \n"
+  "                      N is between 3 and 15, \n"
+  "                      optional (+) if extra \"bedPlus\" fields, \n"
+  "                      optional P specifies the number of extra fields. Not required, but preferred.\n"
+  "                      Examples: -type=bed6 or -type=bed6+ or -type=bed6+3 \n"
+  "                      (see http://genome.ucsc.edu/FAQ/FAQformat.html#format1)\n"
   "   -as=fields.as - If you have non-standard \"bedPlus\" fields, it's great to put a definition\n"
   "                   of each field in a row in AutoSql format here.\n"
   "   -blockSize=N - Number of items to bundle in r-tree.  Default %d\n"
   "   -itemsPerSlot=N - Number of data points bundled at lowest level. Default %d\n"
   "   -unc - If set, do not use compression.\n"
   "   -tab - If set, expect fields to be tab separated, normally\n"
   "           expects white space separator.\n"
   , version, bbiCurrentVersion, blockSize, itemsPerSlot
   );
 }
 
 static struct optionSpec options[] = {
    {"blockSize", OPTION_INT},
    {"itemsPerSlot", OPTION_INT},
    {"type", OPTION_STRING},