
WaveRider Operating Manual
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Copyright 1997-2004 Jonathan Purcell
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ASCII FILE OUTPUT (Exporting to a spreadsheet)
Offline processed biological data may be exported to an ASCII (text) file. This data can be
opened and further processed in a spread sheet or statistical analysis package. The streams of
processed data stored in the ASCII file will correspond to the General Graphics Windows
present in the configuration file when the data is exported.
Directions for ASCII FILE OUTPUT
ASCII FILE OUTPUT will appear grayed out in the FILE menu unless both an archive file is
opened and a configuration file is opened that has at least one non-GSR General Graph
Window.
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1. Select ASCII FILE OUTPUT from the FILE menu.
2. Create an 8 character name for your file at the prompt. This file will be given a .txt
extension.
3. Hit OK
Description of ASCII File
The ASCII file is comma delimited. Select the appropriate settings in your spread sheet to
make sure that the column breaks are put in the correct places.
The left most column is the time at which each processed data point was produced (in
seconds). The General Graphics Window with the finest time resolution in the configuration
file used during the export of data, will define the time resolution of the ASCII file. Some
data streams may be calculated at a coarser resolution and not fill up every cell. Some
columns of buffered data may not have data in the first few rows because, the buffered data is
not accurate until the first few readings have passed into the buffer.
Each General Graphics Window will create a column of numbers in the ASCII file. Each
column will be given either the default title of the window produced by WaveWare or the
name that was given to the General Graphics Window in the General Graphics Options
Dialog Box by the user.
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GSR General Graph may be output to ASCII but an additional non-GSR General Graphics window must be
included in the configuration file.
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