XSPEC parameter databased to XSPEC
batch files
@ character, it designates a file which contains a
list of the files to process. Otherwise, it may be a space or comman delimited
list of files to process.
.scn or
.sum files, from which it may create more than one output file.
XSPEC model defaults database file. See the documentation for
pha2xspec-param for more information.
XSPEC batch files.
It requires the specific defaults database used by pha2xspec-param to create the parameter databases.
While xspec-param2batch operates on _fitpar.rdb files created
by pha2xspec-param, it accepts a number of different formats for
the names of the input files.
Input files may have one of four suffixes: .scn, .sum, and .pha,
and _fitpar.rdb. For a .scn file, the name should have the
format XXXXX.scn. xspec-param2batch scans the directory containing
the specified file for .pha files with the template acqXXXXXd?i?.pha,
and processes all of the _fitpar.rdb files in the current directory
which have accompanying .pha files.
Files which end in .sum should have the template XXXXXd?.sum. xspec-param2batch
scans the directory containing the specified file for .pha
files with the template acqXXXXXd?i?.pha,
and processes all of the _fitpar.rdb files in the current directory
which have accompanying .pha files.
It determines the _fitpar.rdb file for an input file
which ends in .pha by removing the path and looking in the current
directory for the associated .pha file.
Finally, if the input file has the _fitpar.rdb suffix, it processes
that file as is, using the full path to the file.
Note that batch files are always created in the current directory.