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Introduction

This manual describes the sort language. It can currently be used to sort Eurogam, Euroball, GammaSphere, IN2P3, Goosy, Oak Ridge or Venla format data. More features and data formats are being added according to users' requirements.

In order to run a sort the user supplies a file of sorting instructions written in the sort language. This data file should contain a description of the experimental setup, the number of spectra (histograms) required and a set of commands to be applied to each event being sorted. The sort package checks the syntax of these instructions and translates them into a more low level language, eg. C. This translation is then compiled to produce a sort program based on the user's original sort instructions.

If there are mistakes in your sortfile the sort package reports them as warnings or errors when you try to set up a sort. Warning and error messages are given with the line number and a copy of the erroneous line.


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