SUMMARY
Tell sac to read author list (and possibly phase pick information) from a user-defined preferences file, or interactively enter author list on the PICKAUTHOR command line.
SYNTAX
PICKAUTHOR author1 {author2 author3 ... }
PICKAUTHOR FILE {filename}
PICKAUTHOR PHASE {filename}
INPUT
authorlist: sac uses the input to create the author list. FILE: if the FILE option is used, sac will read the author list from the preferences file. If a filename is given on the command line, sac will read the specified file, else it will read the most recently entered file name from a previous call to PICKAUTHOR. If no filename was ever entered, sac will look for SACAUX/csspickprefs. PHASE: this option behaves essencially like the FILE option with the added benefit of having sac read specific header variable information as well.
DEFAULT VALUES
PICKAUTHOR FILE
DESCRIPTION
PICKAUTHOR is provided as a means to override the preferences file on the command line. It can be used to provide a prioritized list of authors at the command line, or to redirect SAC from one preferences file to another. For more on the preferences files, see PICKPREFS and READCSS.
Note If the user alters the preference settings while data is in the data buffers, the picks in the SAC data buffer (the buffer visible to the user through LISTHDR and CHNHDR etc.) may be modified.
For example, if the author list is "john rachel michael" and some files are read with the READCSS command some arrivals may be read with author = michael. (The user will proably not be aware of who the author is for a given pick, because the author field in CSS does not appear in the SAC format.) If the user later uses the PICKAUTHOR command to change the author list to "peter doug rachel", then on a READCSS MORE command, no arrivals with author = michael will be read from the data files, and the file already in memory will lose the picks which have michael as the author. The user may not know why seemingly random picks have disappeard. For an explanation, type HELP PICKPREFS.