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[William Rideout]

John,

Thanks.

I think I'll add to my to-do list updating the tutorial on how to use
madrigal, and also adding links to appropriate sections from the scripts
themselves.  For example, I think a link labelled "How do I choose
which file to use?" at the top of any madExperiments output with
more than one file listed would solve any confusion.  It would take the 
user to the section of the documentation thats discusses these points 
below.

I'll add that to my prototype bug/feature request system for Madrigal
on anubis.

Bill

John Holt wrote:
> 
> A question has arisen concerning the meaning of "default" file in
> the Madrigal database. Perhaps the following will clarify this.
> 
> Multiple default files are allowed, as described (perhaps not as
> clearly as could be hoped) by the documentation. Each file has a kindat
> which tags the data analysis algorithm used to produce the file. In
> many experiments, such as 9/21/1998, there are files produced by
> different analysis programs. In the case at hand, these are INSCAL and
> EFWINDS. In each case there is a default file, which is the one most
> users will want. There may also be history files, which are no longer
> of use to users, but can be valuable for those of us who are directly
> involved in the analysis. These are normally not displayed. Finally,
> there may be variant files. These are files produced by the analysis
> program run with different options from those used when the default
> file was produced. An example would be inscal run with a non-standard
> lag-profile summation rule. In all cases, there should be a header
> record which describes these differences in detail. I am working on
> this now. The header records for 9/21/98 do exist (see the experiment
> directory), but only in Steve's undocumented binary format. So, no one
> can read them. I need to decode these and add them to the beginning of
> the two files. Then, users can view them as I described yesterday in my
> message to openmadrigal-users. As soon as I have the catalog/header
> record situation under control, I will write an explanatory message to
> openmadrigal-users.
> 
> John
> 
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