What types of data files does Dataplot read?
Currently, Dataplot reads ASCII files. These files can be created either using your favorite text editor or as the output from an commercial software program or as output from one of your own programs. The standard format of the ASCII file is a rectangular block of data. That is, the columns represent variables and the rows represent observations (Dataplot assumes that all variables in a given file have the same number of observations). If your data files is structured so that rows represent variables and columns represent observations, then you can use the SERIAL READ command to read the data. Dataplot supports a number of commands for skipping header lines, restricting which rows and columns are read, and specifying a fixed format for the data. These are documented in Chapter 9 of Volume I of the Reference Manual. Dataplot does support unformatted Fortran files. This is typically reserved for very large data files to speed up the reading and writing of data files. Dataplto does not c
