normal.inp
to control
the running of the program. If this file cannot be found in either
lower case or upper case characters, normal.inp
will be
discussed further in Chapter 3.
As soon as each data set is processed it will be written to the output file. If the output is a UWXAFS binary file, the data set will be appended as a new record. If it is an ASCII file, that file will be written to disk.
This is the naming convention for the output files:
nor
for the normalized data and with der
for the derivative data. The extension is defined as all characters
after the final dot (.) in the file name. This definition of
extension is unambiguous on all operating systems.
001
, the next data set will have 002
, and so on.
_norm
or
_der
to the filename before the extension. Note that on MS DOS
machines, this may cause the file name to exceed eight characters.
As for all UWXAFS3.0 data analysis programs, there are two options for
the format of the data files. The data may be in either a specially
formatted binary file known as a UWXAFS file (also called an RDF
file), or in a specially formatted ASCII column file. More
information on these file formats, including the format specifications
and a discussion of the relative merits of the two file formats can be
found in the UWXAFS3.0 document fileh.doc
. The two file
handling formats can be mixed in
If the input data is in UWXAFS format, it must be in a file of file
type xmu
. Both the file name and record key (either nkey or
skey) must be specified for the input. Output files in the UWXAFS
format will be written to a single file. Output files in the ASCII
format will be written to files named by the convention described
above.
If the input data is in ASCII format, it must be in a file with one or more document lines, followed by a required line of minus signs ( - ), followed by an ignored line containing column labels, and then columns of numerical data for x, and y(x).
Output files in the ASCII format will each contain only one set of data,
and will be named as described above. They will be written to a two
column file with a header like that described above. Each line in the
header will begin with a hash (#), which is the character denoting a
comment line in the plotting program