>If I understand your question correctly, you are trying to use an EXCEL file as an input for Variowin Prevar. Obviously it won't work for several reasons (a) Variowin uses the same file format as GEOEAS, a plain ASCII file, (b) the data itself is in columns separated by spaces or commas, (c) the variable names are in a header, there is also a line with a count for the number of variables. You could however save the EXCEL as plain ASCII and then use a text editor such as NOTEPAD to generate the required header (Don't use WORDPAD, it will insert various on-numeric items). The missing value indicator for GEOEAS is .1E+32 or 1E+31. In the data columns don't include any non-numeric characters (it is possible to have a last column of non-numeric characters, these must be in single quotes and the program will ignore them.
Thanks Donald but it is more complex than that. I'm sorry if i wasn't explicit enough in my question but i did create ASCII files to use with variowin. I'm pretty familiar with that program and GeoEas. First i created my ASCII files with Excel, then with Programmer's File Editor, and then with the Notepad. None of them worked under Windows XP and Millenium. Variowin kept reporting error while reading file. Then i went to GeoEas and tried to make it read its own example.dat file and it couldn't under Windows XP. I have come to the conclusion that due to methods to create ASCII files under the new editions of Windows, after W98, programs that use GeoEas data files are not able to read them any more. Rubén http://webmail.udec.cl -- * To post a message to the list, send it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] * As a general service to the users, please remember to post a summary of any useful responses to your questions. * To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with no subject and "unsubscribe ai-geostats" followed by "end" on the next line in the message body. DO NOT SEND Subscribe/Unsubscribe requests to the list * Support to the list is provided at http://www.ai-geostats.org
