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.TH MXAUTOSAVE_FMT 5 "October 2011" "MX Administrator Manuals"
.SH NAME
mxautosave_fmt - mxautosave save/restore file format
.SH DESCRIPTION
This man page describes the format of save/restore files used by the
.B mxautosave
program.  The format is fairly simple and consists of two columns of text.
The first column contains the name of the database variable while the second
column contains the current value of the variable expressed in ASCII text.
If the current value of the variable contains embedded whitespace, the
value field is enclosed by double quotes.

The last line of the file is different in that it contains merely a string
of 8 consecutive asterisk characters.  The presence of this string at the
end of the save file indicates that the save file is a valid save file.

.SH EXAMPLES
Here is an example of an MX save/restore file.

.nf
edge_energy.value   17997.6
d_spacing.value   3.13555
beam_offset.value   35000
shutter_policy.value   0
xafs_header1.value  "KB setup"
xafs_header2.value  " "
xafs_header3.value  " "
sff_header1.value  "Pb edge"
sff_header2.value  energy
sff_header_fmt.value  "beamline_name | edge_energy | sff_header1 | sff_header2 | %devices"
theta_enabled.value   1
momega_enabled.value   0
normpoly_enable.value   0
normal_enabled.value   0
id_ev_enabled.value   0
momega_params.value   0 0 0 0
normpoly_params.value   0 0 0 0
id_ev_harmonic.value   1
id_ev_offset.value   85
id_ev_params.value   1 200
conIo_enabled.value   0
conIo_params.value   100 1 0 0 0
********
.fi

.SH SEE ALSO
.B mxautosave(8)

.SH AUTHOR
William Lavender <lavender@agni.phys.iit.edu>