[comp.sys.mac.misc] Unix to Mac data transfer

u106703@lanl.gov (Jason S. White) (04/16/91)

Sorry about the incomplete letter, but I thought it would be better to post
this.

Last summer, I got take data from one of the crays (it was in column form) and
put it into cricketgraph.  The way I did this was to first download (or ftp)
to the mac as a text file.  Go into a text editing utility, I used McSink, and
convert the spaces to either tabs or commas.  You should then be able to 
open it under cricket graph as a tab-delimited text file.  

Hope that's what you wanted to know!

Jason S. White
6600zot@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu


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johnston@oscar.ccm.udel.edu (04/16/91)

In article <2863@sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au>, jsyktus@adam.adelaide.edu.au (Jozef Syktus) writes...
> 
>I need to transfer number of data sets from Unix camputer (i.e. several columns
>of data in f5.1 Fortran format)
>i.e
> 
>271.2  278.3   271.1
>272.3  278.1   288.2
>273.1  277.0   288.0
>277.4  289.2   266.2  ....etc..

Another approach is simply to list is to the terminal screen and use the
Copy Table feature built into many terminal emulators.  If you need 
something that operates on data files directly, there is a PD (maybe
shareware utility called "Tabbit" that will convert space-dilimited
files to tab-delimited files that can be imported into Cricket or
DeltaGraph.

Bill (johnston@oscar.ccm.udel.edu)

n138ct@tamuts.tamu.edu (Brent Burton) (04/17/91)

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jeffe@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (George Jefferson ) (04/17/91)

:>I need to transfer number of data sets from Unix camputer (i.e. several columns
:>of data in f5.1 Fortran format)
:>i.e
:> 
:>271.2  278.3   271.1

:Another approach is simply to list is to the terminal screen and use the
:Copy Table feature built into many terminal emulators.  If you need 
yuk.  :-)
well, maybe if you have only a small amount of data.

another approach is to give in and use a unix command. ( I know, yuk too)

sed 's/  */\	/g' fort.1 > fort.tabbed
      ^^     ^one tab
      ^two spaces

on my Sun4, this is quicker than you can say "mcsink"  :-)

BTW you could also replace the "\tab" with a "," or whatever else
your importing application is happy with
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