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diff --git a/Windows/spice/share/man/man1/ngsconvert.1 b/Windows/spice/share/man/man1/ngsconvert.1 deleted file mode 100644 index 55f72967..00000000 --- a/Windows/spice/share/man/man1/ngsconvert.1 +++ /dev/null @@ -1,126 +0,0 @@ -.\" Copyright (c) 1985 Wayne A. Christopher, U. C. Berkeley CAD Group -.TH SCONVERT 1 "20 March 1986" -.UC 4 -.SH NAME -sconvert \- convert spice formats -.SH SYNOPSIS -.B sconvert fromtype fromfile totype tofile -.br -.B sconvert fromtype totype -.br -.B sconvert -.br -.SH DESCRIPTION -.B Sconvert -translates spice output files among three formats: the old -binary format, a new binary format, and a new ascii format. -The formats are specified by the -.B fromtype -and -.B totype -arguments: `o' for the old format, `b' for the new binary format, -and `a' for the new ascii format. -.B Fromtype -specifies the format to be read, and -.B totype -specifies the format to be written. -If -.B fromfile -and -.B tofile -are given, then they are used as the input and output, otherwise -standard input and output are used. -(Note that this second option is only available on \s-2UNIX\s+2 systems -\- on VMS and other systems you must supply the filenames.) -If no arguments are given, the parameters are prompted for. -.PP -Binary format is the preferred format for general use, as it is -the most economical in terms of space and speed of access, and ascii is -provided to make it easy to modify data files and transfer them -between machines with different floating-point formats. -The old format is provided only -for backward compatibility. -The three formats are as follows: -.br -.nf - -.B Old: - - What Size in Bytes - - title 80 - date 8 - time 8 - numoutputs 2 - the integer 4 2 - variable names -- - char[numoutputs][8] numoutputs * 8 - types of output numoutputs * 2 - node index numoutputs * 2 - plot title numoutputs * 24 - the actual data numpoints * numoutputs * 8 - -.B Ascii: - - Title: \fITitle Card String\fR - Date: \fIDate\fR - [ Plotname: \fIPlot Name\fR - Flags: \fIcomplex\fR or \fIreal\fR - No. Variables: \fInumoutputs\fR - No. Points: \fInumpoints\fR - Command: \fInutmeg command\fR - Variables: 0 \fIvarname1\fR \fItypename1\fR - 1 \fIvarname2\fR \fItypename2\fR - etc... - Values: - 0 n n n n ... - 1 n n n n ... - And so forth... - ] repeated one or more times -.fi -.PP -If one of the flags is \fIcomplex\fR, the points look like r,i where r and i -are floating point (in %e format). -Otherwise they are in %e format. -Only one of \fIreal\fR and \fIcomplex\fR should appear. -.PP -The lines are guaranteed to be less than 80 columns wide (unless the -plot title or variable names are very long), so this format is safe -to mail between systems like CMS. -.PP -Any number of \fBCommand:\fR lines may appear between the \fBNo. Points:\fR -and the \fBVariables:\fR lines, and whenever the plot is loaded into -\fBnutmeg\fR they will be executed. -.nf - -.B Binary: - - \fITitle Card\fR (a NULL terminated string) - \fIDate, Time\fR (a NULL terminated string) - [ - \fIPlot title\fR (a NULL terminated string) - \fINumber of variables\fR (an int) - \fINumber of data points\fR (an int) - \fIflags\fR (a short) - \fIvariable header struct\fR (repeated numoutputs times) - \fIvariable name\fR (a NULL terminated string) - \fIvariable type\fR (an int) - \fIset of outputs\fR (repeated numpoints times) - ] repeated one or more times. -.fi -.PP -A set of outputs is a vector of doubles of length numoutputs, or -a vector of real-imaginary pairs of doubles if the data is complex. -.SH "SEE ALSO" -nutmeg(1), spice(1), writedata(3) -.SH AUTHOR -Wayne Christopher (faustus@cad.berkeley.edu) -.SH BUGS -If variable names and the title -and plotname strings have trailing -blanks in them they will be stripped off when the file is read, if -it is in ascii format. -.PP -If a plot title begins with "Title:" \fBnutmeg\fR will be fooled into thinking -that this is an ascii format file. -\fBSconvert\fR always requires the type to be specified, however. |