Sol2dat - convert and combine solutions.

Sol2dat converts solution data into a plain text format. The output format follows gnuplot's `plot data-file' convention.

Usage

sol2dat [-h$\mathrm \vert$-a] [-bl n] (run$\mathrm \vert$qfile$\mathrm \vert$-) ofile lab ...

Switches

	-h		:		Display a usage message and exit with nonzero return value.
	-a		:		Append data to output files, do not overwrite.

Arguments

	run		:		Convert data of run run, may contain one %d format specifier.
	qfile		:		Convert data from q.*-file qfile.
	-		:		Convert data from standard input.
	ofile		:		Write or append solutions to file ofile.
	lab		:		Convert solutions with restart labels lab ...

Options

-bl n

:

# of Blank lines to separate solutions, 1=mesh data, 2=individual.

Detailed description

Sol2dat converts and combines solutions from AUTO output format into a plain ASCII format text file that can be used as input to gnuplot's `plot data-file' commands. It either reads the data from the run with qualified run name run, from an explicitly specified file qfile, or, from standard input if `-' was given. The solutions with the specified labels are written or appended to file ofile, depending on whether sol2dat was invoked with the switch -a or not. The individual solutions will be separated by a number of blank lines as specified with the option -bl, default is 2, that is, gnuplot will interpret each solution as a separate curve. This is similar to the 2d and 3d plotting modes of AUTO's plotting utility plaut.

Return values

Sol2dat returns 0 on success and 1 if an error occurred or the -h switch was given.