 | Pressing <Ctrl>H on a partially complete command will give a one line summary of all commands matching that pattern |
| Pressing <Ctrl>K will start a "command keyword" help search - type in a one word query, and all commands whose description matches this will be printed |
| Pressing <Ctrl>U will discard the rest of the line starting from the current cursor position |
| Pressing <Ctrl>A will move the cursor to the beginning of line |
| Pressing <Ctrl>E will move to end of the current line |
Open GENIE supports access to the file formats listed below:
| ISIS Raw File (Read only) |
| GENIE-II Intermediate file (Read only) |
| Open GENIE Intermediate File (Read and Write, Machine independent) |
| Open GENIE ASCII File (Read and Write) |
| HDF Files (Write only) |
| NEXUS Files (Read and Write) |
These files can all be read directly with the Get() and Put() commands by specifying numbered or named data elements. Open GENIE supports access to any format of ASCII file via the Asciifile() command.
Below is a list of graphics devices currently supported by Open GENIE, these rely upon the PGPLOT package and it may well be possible to use other pgplot drivers with Open GENIE. In the distributed version of Open GENIE we have only checked out the functioning of the devices below on all platforms. To see other devices which may be available on a particular version of Open GENIE type
>> Device/Open "Help"
| Device Name | Description String |
| Tcl/Tk driver | "TK" or "tk" |
| X-Windows devices | "XWINDOW" or "xw" |
| Windows NT/95 display driver | "WF" or "wf" |
| Postscript (portrait) | "PS" or "ps" |
| Colour Postscript (portrait) | "CPS" or "cps" |
| Postscript (landscape) | "PS" or "ps" |
| Colour Postscript (landscape) | "VCPS" or "vcps" |
| CGM file (indexed colour selection) | "CGM" or "cgm" |
| CGM file (direct colour selection) | "CGMD" or "cgmd" |
Fonts
Open GENIE uses the PGPLOT fonts when drawing fonts onto the open graphics device, currently, the supported fonts available are:
$NORMAL
$ROMAN
$ITALIC
$SCRIPT
Note: For accessing special scientific/Greek characters within these fonts, the documented PGPLOT escape sequences may be used in the Open GENIE text string being plotted. For example "Time-of-Flight (\gms)" where "\gm" produces a Greek m character. For further details see the PGPLOT documentation, available at ftp://astro.caltech.edu/pub/pgplot.
Markers
Markers types available for plotting.
$POINT
$PLUS
$STAR
$CIRCLE
$CROSS
$BOX
Linestyles
Linestyles available for plotting.
$FULL
$DASH
$DOT_DASH
$DOT
Colours
Pre-defined colours available for the graphics by default. For using further colours in the graphics, see the Open Genie reference manual.
$BLACK
$WHITE
$RED
$GREEN
$BLUE
$CYAN
$MAGENTA
$YELLOW
$ORANGE
$LIGHT_GREEN
$SEA_GREEN
$LIGHT_BLUE
$PURPLE
$CRIMSON
$DARK_GRAY
$LIGHT_GRAY