HANDLING FILES
iKon-L SECTION 7
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File extension = .dat
The .dat file comprises data only and has no header information of any kind. The original data set remains
unchanged.
After you have selected Raw data (*.dat) from the Save as type drop-down menu, allocated a filename and
clicked Save, the Export # dialog box appears, e.g.
This allows the user to save a data set (currently in memory) to a file located on disk. A data set refers to a
collection of data comprising one or more of the following subsets:
• Signal
• Background
• Reference
• Cal
A .dat file, however, will contain only one of the above data subsets.
NOTE: The Cal subset is used in Radiometry/Colorimetry measurements. It does not refer to the X-Axis
calibration of SIG, BG
or
The .dat file format reflects the CCD sensor format, e.g., with a CCD sensor of 1600 columns * 400 rows then
the first 1600 data values in the .dat file correspond to the first row of the CCD, the second 1600 data values
correspond to the second row, etc.
REF data.
The .dat types range is shown in table 10 on the next page.
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