# TAS Data Storage

Triple axis spectrometer data is stored in ASCII files. These ASCII files are formatted in a format compatible to the ILL's triple axis data file format. Data files can be found in directories:

        /home/INST/data/YYYY

on the instrument computer or in

        /data/lnslib/data/INST/data/YYYY

on any other LNS unix system. INST is a placeholder for the instrument name in capitals, YYYY for the year of data collection. Data files are named according to the SINQ naming convention:

         instRRRRRYYYY.dat

with inst being the placeholder for the instrument name in lowercase, RRRRR the run number as a five digit number and YYYY again the year of data collection. Example: tasp003302002.dat is data collected in run number 330 in 2002.

The last measured data file can be discarded by typing the command:

    killfile

in SICS. SICS managers privilege is required for this command.

Automatically generated log files can be found in the /home/INST/log directory for each day. They are named according to the scheme:

    autoYYYY-MM-DD@HH-MM-SS.log

YYYY is again the year, MM the month, DD the day, HH the hour, MM the minute and SS the second of file creation.