RE: mystery ?data base? files

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From: Alexander Hovig (a_hovig_at_uclink.berkeley.edu)
Date: Thu Jun 26 2003 - 13:23:24 PDT

Greetings Holly:

Is it possible that the source of these files is some type of scientific
data acquisition system, such as would be used in spectroscopy?

The file formats you have described can be found as ASCII data reduction
files output by a product named PHI Multipak. Would this make any sense
given where the files came from?

Cheers,
Alex

Alexander Hovig
Programmer Analyst III
PPCS Information Systems Group
University of California at Berkeley
Email: a_hovig_at_uclink.berkeley.edu
Email: 5108407358_at_alphapage.airtouch.com
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>Dear All,
>
>We received a large photographic slide collection of mostly cacti
>(ca. 15,000), accompanied by the donor's 3 1/2 inch PC-formatted
>floppy disks of what are reported to be the inventory/catalogues of
>these slides. Whether the source was from a PC or a Mac isn't
>certain. Most of the files are small, ca. 38 KB.
>
>We have tried, some talented students have tried, but no luck
>finding a way to use them.
>
>The files have the following types of names (and date to 1992 and
1993):
>cact-n-a.gen
>cact-n-a.num
>cact-n-a.qua
>
>and others that appear to be related:
>coryph.num
>coryph.qua
>coryph.spe
>
>and other apparent groupings:
>opuntia.bes
>opuntia.num
>opuntia.spe
>
>agavemex.nam
>agavemex.num
>agavemex.qua
>
>There are also some files that end with ".bdb", ".nam", ".bst",
>".tot", ".ncf", ".wor"
>Some configuration files are labeled "macros" or "works"
>
>Suggestions for how to proceed would be most welcome.
>
>Thank you,
>
>Holly Forbes
>
>
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