If you're looking for a Windows editor that'll handle VERY large ASCII
files, try UltraEdit-32, available from www.ultraedit.com. Set it right
and the limit is the disk space.
DOS has quite a lot of the UNIXy stuff like pipe and concatenate anyway,
if you look hard at the manuals
Alan Reid
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Joseph S Duval wrote:
>
> Oasis can import the channel names if they are present at the
> beginning of the data file. You can check on this by exporting a
> database in the "Geosoft XYZ" format with the channel headers
> included. I can think of various ways to process your readme.txt file
> either in a word processor or better yet using one of the text editors
> under UNIX or LINUX. The problem you have with many PC-based word
> processors is that they are not able to handle really large text
> files. You can probably concatenate two text files under DOS (I seem
> to recall doing so). That would allow you to prepare the header
> information and then concatenate the data to it.
>
> *******************************************************************************
> Joseph (Joe) S. Duval
> Geophysicist, Eastern Mineral Resources Team
> 12201 Sunrise Valley Dr. MS 954
> Reston, VA 20192
> Phone: 703-648-6106 FAX: 703-648-6383
>
> "Ballantyne, Todd"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Geonet
> Sent by: [Geosoft] (E-mail)"
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> cc:
> 07/27/01 11:06 AM Subject:
> Please respond to geonet [geonet]: Large ascii data sets
> with no header or channel names
>
> Does anyone have a GX or suggestion for converting a "typical"
> "Geoterrex" listing of column names (in a readme.txt) into a Geosoft
> "i3" import template. For airborne data sets it can be a very tedious
> process to create an i3. My current need is to import a data set with
> 140 data columns containing no header of column names.
>
> EXAMPLE OF README.TXT
>
> PARAMETER CHARACTERS CONTENTS
>
> 1 1-10 X (METRES)
> 2 11-20 Y (METRES)
>
> 3 21-30 FIDUCIAL (SECONDS)
> 4 31-40 FLIGHT NUMBER
> 5 41-50 RADAR ALTIMETER (FEET)
> 6 51-60 BAROMETRIC ALTIMETER (FEET)
> (( deleted remaining channels))
>
> EXAMPLE OF i3 FILE.
>
> / Wizard Generated Template for .\
> [IMPORT ARCHIVE]
> FILEHEADER 0
> RECORDFORM DELIM," \t","","","\""
> SKIPSTRING "/"
> LINENUMBER 4,6,NORMAL
> DATA 0,9,NORMAL,,,,
> CHAN X,DOUBLE,NORMAL,9,1,LABEL="X"
> DATA 1,10,NORMAL,,,,
> CHAN Y,DOUBLE,NORMAL,10,1,LABEL="Y"
> DATA 2,10,NORMAL,,,,
> CHAN FID,DOUBLE,NORMAL,10,1,LABEL="FIDUCIAL"
> DATA 3,10,NORMAL,,,,
> CHAN FLT,DOUBLE,NORMAL,10,1,LABEL="FLT_NUM"
> DATA 4,10,NORMAL,,,,
> CHAN RAD,DOUBLE,NORMAL,10,1,LABEL="RAD_ALT"
> DATA 5,10,NORMAL,,,,
> CHAN BARO,DOUBLE,NORMAL,10,1,LABEL="BARO_ALT"
>
>
> cheers, todd.
>
>
> Todd A. Ballantyne, P.Geo.
> Geophysicist
> Ashton Mining of Canada Inc.
> =><=><=><=><=><=><=
> email - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> tel - (604) 983.7750 ext. 255
> fax - (604) 987.7107
>
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>
>
>
>
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Alan B Reid PhD
Reid Geophysics
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Leeds LS16 7LB
UK
Phone: +(44)-113-261-0252
Fax: +(44)-113-293-0062
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