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The following instructions assume linux or osX.
The following instructions assume you are working in a broadly bash-compatible shell, such as you would in linux or osX.
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This tutorial uses a demo package of data files which are available online at <ulink
url="http://omega.astro.utoronto.ca/kst/tutorial/kst_tutorialdata.tgz">http://omega.astro.utoronto.ca/kst/tutorial/kst_tutorialdata.tgz</ulink>.
Download and untar the package, and change to the resulting directory:
<screen><userinput><command>tar -zxvf kst_tutorialdata.tgz</command>
<command>cd kst_tutorialdata</command></userinput></screen>
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To obtain an overview of all available &kst; command-line options, type:
<screen><userinput><command>kst2 --help</command></userinput></screen>
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This tutorial uses a demo ascii data file which is available at <ulink
url="gyrodata.dat.gz">gyrodata.dat.gz</ulink>.
Download the file with your browser, and gunzip it.
<screen><userinput><command>gunzip gyrodata.dat.gz</command></userinput></screen>
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We will first take a look at reading the ASCII file
<filename>gyrodata.dat</filename>, included in the demo package .
<filename>gyrodata.dat</filename> that we just downloaded .
ASCII files are one of the many file types &kst; is capable of
reading. In ASCII files, data is arranged in columns, with each
column corresponding to a field, and the column numbers (beginning
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