from:	 Mark Gurwell 
to:	 "Young, Ken" 
cc:	 Chunhua Qi ,
 Alice Argon ,
 Jun-Hui Zhao ,
 David Wilner ,
 Glen Petitpas 


Hi Charlie,

I think this means that we need to assure that users can easily utilize the reading 
in of SWARM data, without having to use special commands (ala /new for readdata and mir_restore).   
Can we have a check of the data format and have readdata automatically set up the read for the appropriate format?

Also, we have yet to figure out the scaling factors to correctly put things on the same amplitude scale, 
which we need to figure out asap before we make this change.  Charlie, I think it also means we need 
to make a change to apply_tsys that depends upon the file format (we could perhaps make it sensitive 
to the date, assuming we make the change and then never go back to the old format).

Unfortunately I will be gone all next week and this week is very booked, but we should assure 
that these simple things are done correctly.


Mark


On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 10:31 AM, Young, Ken  wrote:

    Dear SMA Data Enthusiast,

       I know I've threatened to do this several times, but unless somebody objects, 
I'm going to switch us to the new data file format at the start of the next SMA semester, Nov. 15th.    
Now would be a very good time to suggest any additional modifications to the file format that 
you would like to have implemented before the switch.

    Taco