spec

Software for Diffraction

1.4.2.3. - File Conventions



scans.4 only uses some of the control lines in the standard spec data files described earlier.

The control conventions used by scans.4 are:
 #S number   Starts a new scan. number is the user's numbering scheme. 
 #M number   Indicates data was taken counting to number monitor counts. 
 #T number   Indicates data was taken counting for number seconds. 
 #N number   Indicates there are number columns of data. 


The following control lines do nothing, although they will be printed to the screen while reading a scan.
 #C comment ...   Conventionally a comment. 
 #D date   Conventionally the date. 
 #L lab1 lab2 ...   Conventionally data column labels, with each label separated by two spaces.