We are sorry but there is no decent namual for XVIEW yet.
For the time being trial and error is the only way to find out about 
what XVIEW can do.
Here we only provide an explanation for the data file formats
accepted by XVIEW. 

IMPORTANT!!!!!:
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The file types are being recognized !!!by extensions!!!.
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*.raw - Siemens binary data (old style, not RAW2!!)
*.rd  - Phillips binary data
*.rit - DBWS laboratory X-ray raw data 
*.dat - ASCII x-y (or angle - counts) two-column data. The step is being assumed 
        constant and equal to the difference of the 2theta's ofthe first two
        data points. All the other 2theta's are being ignored.
*.neu - ASCII multi couter constant wavelength neutron data
*.ex$ - versatile ASCII free format (see explanation below)


For those who wish to run XVIEW from Windows(TM) ;-) two icons are included
in the distribution kit.

File formats descriptions:
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The comments written after the semi-colon (;) must not appear in the real 
data files. Complete data files in several formats are provided in 
the distribution kit.


----- *.ex$ file-------
CuFe nanometric ; comment line                                          
Mo0 ; Anode material or wavelength, Mo0 means molybdenum Ka1+Ka2, Cu1 means copper Ka1 e.t.c. 2.466 means wavelength in Angstroems
6.  ; 2theta begin in degrees  
.05 ; step  in degrees
2081 ; number of data points
    6926    7172    7284    7242    7356    7167    7306    7254
    7287    7426    7066    7038    7117    7022    7161    7040
    6908    6972    6883    6809    6800    6507    6671    6573
    6331    6368    6334    6244    6154    5908    6056    5743
    5734    5681    5652    5365    5328    5360    5341    5137
    ...     ....    ....     ...    ....
Data points may come in any format, in one, eight, ten or as many 
columns as you wish of any width. Just make sure the
numbers are separated by either blanks or EOL-s. 


----- *.neu file------
     150      10   10540 ; begin, step, end in centidegrees 
 1578313 1167663 1 72741 1 42458 1 30206 1 23214 1 19060 1 16606 1 14658 1 13342
 1 12611 1 11709 1 11126 1 10259 1  9987 1  9537 1  9440 1  8787 1  8733 1  8353
 1  7990 1  7842 1  7518 1  7526 1  7223 1  6893 1  6702 1  6607 1  6432 1  6225
 1  6040 1  5873 1  5677 1  5633 1  5249 1  5233 1  5092 1  5114 1  4897 1  4836
 1  4778 1  4650 1  4498 1  4311 1  4387 1  4298 1  4126 1  3971 1  3873 1  3906
 1  3778 1  3576 1  3488 1  3440 1  3318 1  3141 1  3107 1  2843 1  2767 1  2632
 1  2514 1  2476 1  2451 1  2305 1  2309 1  2101 1  2021 1  1887 1  1745 1  1779
 1  1627 1  1582 1  1511 1  1451 1  1336 1  1286 1  1170 1  1182 1  1099 1   964
..  .... .  .... .  .... .  .... .  .... .  .... .  .... .  .... .
data format is fixed to 10(I2,I6) - 10 columns * (No. of counters, counts)
No comment line!!!! 


------ *.rit file------
  54.860 .020000  57.580 B2SI3 ; 3(F8.0) begin, step, end in degrees, than 56 char. comment          
   1464    1481    1464    1506    1496    1519    1475    1455         
   1536    1458    1422    1520    1414    1466    1448    1360         
   1475    1414    1413    1422    1505    1448    1394    1382         
   1477    1380    1399    1466    1414    1434    1517    1455         
   1378    1502    1464    1490    1439    1443    1475    1545          
   ....    ...     ...     ...     ....    ....
data in 8(F7.0,1X) format  8 columns*(7 digit number, 1 blank)

------ *.dat file----
   82.600    379    ; 2theta   counts|<- from these two points the step
   82.612    651                     |<- of .012 deg will be calculated
   82.624    768                         other 2theta values will be ignored
   82.636    828  
   82.648    861  
   82.660    859  
   82.672    884  
   82.684    901  
   .....     ....
No comment line!!!!


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