Note: for all descriptions, I assume you are in a directory which contains:
  1. FORTRAN source code for the data parser provided to us
  2. A binary version of the data

/p/graphics/private/Students/mcw/data is one such directory

How to read data out of binary files

  1. You must use f77 to compile bptec2.f. The current executable is called "dataExtractor"
  2. Edit the file called bptec2.inp to enter the data file you want extracted (see the "filbin" parameter; I've always left all of the other values the same)
  3. run the executable
  4. Enter "0" for the number of data sets to plot
  5. Enter "0" for the corresponding index
  6. I have chosen "time" (100) for the X-Variable options; I think "Zone Index" would work as well (3)
  7. Choose radius (16) for the y-coordinate
  8. The output will be put in a directory called "tmp" (either relative to cwd or dir all of the data is in: its the same for me). The data we have been most interested in are in ASCII files called "PLOT.zones.*", where the * corresponds to a number.
  9. Note, the output in the files are NOT in sorted order

Creating a header file to read ASCII zones data

This file is a text file, used to read the ASCII data from above into my displaying tool.

What the lines in the file mean:

  1. The number of files that will be read
  2. The number of points per set
  3. The total number of sets
  4. blank
  5. Name of data set file 1
  6. Number of sets in file
  7. Name of data set 2
  8. Number of sets in file
  9. etc..

Current data files

The sets of files we have: