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Software for Diffraction

1.4.2.5. - More Details



After scans.4 reads and indexes a data file, it remembers the file length. If you answer affirmative to the Change modes? query, scans.4 will add to the index if the file has lengthened.

If you give a dot (.) as the command line argument or in response to Scans/options query, the previous argument or option string will be used. That is, the string is remembered, not the options chosen interactively using Change modes? For instance, if you enter a long sequence of scan numbers and read in the scans, then change something via Change modes?, you can simply enter a dot in response to Scans/options and recover the previous sequence of scan numbers.

When you do enter a string of flags and scan numbers, the modes set by the flags only apply to the scans that follow the flags and not the preceding scans.