To make the generation of group formats easy there is a mechanism
provided.
This assumes pre-defined names for each detector,
obtained from the Event Builder setup,
and allocates group ranges contiguously.
The *commands section of the sort description must use this
naming convention.
The Control window of the TDR Event Builder software has a button
labelled
Generate MTsort Maps
which creates mapping files and places them in the current setup directory.
There are two files called currentsetup.MTmap and
currentsetup.MTformats.
The latter file should be used as the sort input format specification.
If the sort setup directory is not the same as the EB setup directory,
then these two files must be copied over.
*formats include currentsetup.MTformats *spectra ... *commands ... *finish
The handler supports reading, arithmetic and test functions on 64-bit entities - hence time stamps are supported.