MDA Utilities

The MDA Utilities are programs written to deal with MDA files, as created by saveData in EPICS.

December 2006: The utilities have been modified to accommodate scans with more than 32,767 points (possible with EPICS 3.14).

mda2ascii

Converts MDA files into an ASCII format, suitable for use with a plotting program. It has many options, and handles data sets of any dimension.

mda-dump

Does a dump of all the information held within an MDA file, exactly as it is stored.

mda-info

Shows a few pieces of information from an MDA file.

libmda-load

This library is used to load MDA files, and can be used to write custom applications.

The source has been built on Debian Linux 3.1 and Solaris 9, requiring no special external libraries. It can be built on Mac OS X, but I have no way to make such binaries. There is no Windows version.

• Source
• Linux binaries
• Solaris binaries

Maintained by Dohn Arms.