A.2. Analysis Setup. ORTEC A66-BW GammaVision

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file.job

An optional

.JOB

file to be executed at start-up.

Certain defaults apply if any one or more of these arguments is omitted. The initial Detector list is named

M32MCA.CFG

. The nuclide library is the last library used. And no JOB is automatically executed unless the file.job

argument is included.

A.2. Analysis Setup

GammaVision includes two configuration files, b30winds.ini

and b30win.txt

, that allow advanced users to control several options in, respectively, the spectrum analysis options and the report output text. Each time GammaVision is started, it reads the settings in these two files. If a configuration file is not found or cannot be read, GammaVision recreates the default version of that file and loads the default settings. These files should only be changed after careful consider-

ation of the impact of the changes. The defaults are listed in Section A.2.2.

A.2.1. WAN32, GAM32, NPP32, ENV32, and ROI32

GammaVision’s analysis engines are standalone programs which perform the analysis of a complete spectrum. Not only are these analysis programs run by GammaVision, they can also be run by other programs or from the Windows command line. The command line (shown here for

WAN32 only) is:

WAN32 file.SPC [DEBUG] [file.INI] file.SPC

This is the spectrum filename and it must be the first argument. For a complete analysis it must contain all the analysis parameters and calibrations. The output files are the input file name with the extension of

.UFO

for the binary output and the extension of

.RPT

for the text output.

DEBUG file.INI

This optional parameter controls the output of debugging information in the analysis report file. GammaVision sets this parameter when GammaVision is run in debug mode. This produces considerable output and significantly slows the execution. It must be the second or third argument.

This optional file is the

.INI

file (such as b30winds.ini

) for controlling the analysis.

It overrides the normal default file. If the file specified here cannot be found or read, the default b30winds.ini

file is used. If the default file cannot be found or read, the internal options are used. By selecting different

.INI

files for different spectra, different analyses can be produced.

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