Non-Image Data Files used by VISTA

In addition to images and spectra, VISTA generates a number of auxiliary non-image data structures. Some VISTA commands produce data that are stored internally in Fortran COMMON blocks. These data can be saved into disk files using the SAVE command described below and can be read back into VISTA at a later time using the GET command. The PRINT command is used to show the contents of these auxiliary data structures.

VISTA can also read numeric and alphanumeric data from ASCII text files. The commands for manipulating these files are:

OPEN
open an ASCII file
CLOSE
close an Open ASCII file
READ
read the next line of an ASCII file
SKIP
designate lines to skip in a file
REWIND
rewind an open ASCII file to the first line
STAT
compute statistics on data in an ASCII file