Hi Ruben, I am also working on Windows XP and have repeated your experiment. I can read the file created from Excel (option formatted text, space delimited) with prevar2D and then run Vario2D without any problem.
Pierre <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Dr. Pierre Goovaerts Consultant in (Geo)statistics President of PGeostat, LLC and Senior Chief Scientist with Biomedware Inc. 710 Ridgemont Lane Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48103-1535, U.S.A. E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (734) 668-9900 Fax: (734) 668-7788 http://alumni.engin.umich.edu/~goovaert/ <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Ruben Roa wrote: > >If I understand your question correctly, you are trying to use an EXCEL > file as an input for Variowin Prevar. Obviously it won't work for several > reasons (a) Variowin uses the same file format as GEOEAS, a plain ASCII > file, (b) the data itself is in columns separated by spaces or commas, (c) > the variable names are in a header, there is also a line with a count for > the number of variables. You could however save the EXCEL as plain ASCII > and then use a text editor such as NOTEPAD to generate the required header > (Don't use WORDPAD, it will insert various > on-numeric items). The missing value indicator for GEOEAS is .1E+32 or > 1E+31. In the data columns don't include any non-numeric characters (it is > possible to have a last column of non-numeric characters, these must be in > single quotes and the program will ignore them. > > Thanks Donald but it is more complex than that. I'm sorry if i wasn't > explicit enough in my question but i did create ASCII files to use with > variowin. I'm pretty familiar with that program and GeoEas. First i created > my ASCII files with Excel, then with Programmer's File Editor, and then > with the Notepad. None of them worked under Windows XP and Millenium. > Variowin kept reporting error while reading file. Then i went to GeoEas and > tried to make it read its own example.dat file and it couldn't under > Windows XP. I have come to the conclusion that due to methods to create > ASCII files under the new editions of Windows, after W98, programs that use > GeoEas data files are not able to read them any more. > Rubén > http://webmail.udec.cl > > -- > * To post a message to the list, send it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > * As a general service to the users, please remember to post a summary of any useful >responses to your questions. > * To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with no subject and >"unsubscribe ai-geostats" followed by "end" on the next line in the message body. DO >NOT SEND Subscribe/Unsubscribe requests to the list > * Support to the list is provided at http://www.ai-geostats.org > -- * To post a message to the list, send it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] * As a general service to the users, please remember to post a summary of any useful responses to your questions. * To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with no subject and "unsubscribe ai-geostats" followed by "end" on the next line in the message body. DO NOT SEND Subscribe/Unsubscribe requests to the list * Support to the list is provided at http://www.ai-geostats.org
