SUMMARY

Controls errors that can occur during binary file operations.

SYNTAX

BINOPERR {NPTS FATAL|WARNING|IGNORE},
     {DELTA FATAL|WARNING|IGNORE}

INPUT

NPTS:	Change error condition for unequal number of data points.
DELTA:	Change error condition for unequal sampling intervals.
FATAL:	Make error condition fatal. Control is immediately returned to the user's terminal. Additional commands typed on the same line or in the same command file are ignored.
WARNING:	Send a warning message to the user. Correct the error condition and continue.
IGNORE:	Correct the error condition and continue.

DEFAULT VALUES

BINOPERR NPTS FATAL DELTA FATAL

DESCRIPTION

SAC checks for certain common errors whenever you execute a binary operations module command (ADDF, DIVF, etc.) Using this command, you can control what SAC does when it finds one of these errors.

If you make an error condition fatal, then SAC will stop executing the current command, will ignore all commands in its queue, will print an error message to the terminal, and will return control to you. If you make an error condition a warning, then SAC will send you a warning message, correct the condition as best it can, and continue. If you tell SAC to ignore a condition, then SAC will correct the condition and continue without telling you the condition even occurred.

One of these error conditions occurs when the number of data points in the two files to be operated on are not equal. Corrective action in this case is to perform the operation using the number of data points in the smaller file.

Another error condition occurs when the sampling intervals of the two files are not the same. The corrective action in this case is to use the sampling interval of the first data file.

EXAMPLES

Assume that FILE1 has 1000 data points and FILE2 has 950 data points.:

SAC> BINOPERR NPTS FATAL
SAC> READ FILE1
SAC> ADDF FILE2
SAC> ERROR:  Header field mismatch: NPTS FILE1 FILE2

The file addition was not performed. Assume you now type:

SAC> BINOPERR NPTS WARNING
SAC> ADDF FILE2
SAC> WARNING:  Header field mismatch: NPTS FILE1 FILE2

The file addition was performed on the first 950 data points of each file.

SEE COMMANDS

ADDF, SUBF, MULF, DIVF

LATEST REVISION

January 8, 1983 (Version 8.0)