After having chosen one of the upper actions a file-selector is shown. By
default all files with the extension "dat" are shown. To display files with
another extension please select "All files" in the file-selector dialog.
Navigate to the appropriate directory and select the file containing time
string data.
*) The names of the attributes depend on the program settings and can be
changed by clicking on the heading buttons in the time string module.
The default names are "Date", "Observatory", "Observer" and
"Other". In order to change the default names the
Period04 preferences file has to be edited.
3. Finally, press 'OK'
Please note:
Lines starting with "#", ";" or "%" will be treated as comment lines and are
ignored.
Additional options:
It is also possible to select multiple files in the file-selector dialog. In
this case, the program will ask the user for the file-format of the first data
file. After the specification of the file-format, a dialog will show up that
allows to select whether the program should apply the same file-format for all
data files or to show the file-format dialog for every file.
If the columns of
most of your data files have a very special format, you may find it useful to
define a default file-format for reading in time strings. In this case the
file-format dialog will always propose the given default file-format instead
of trying to provide a guess about the file structure. This can be done by
editing the
Period04 preferences file.