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Chapter 4 PC Utilities
4.3.2 Convert4 Command Line Switches
Convert4 supports several command-line switches to facilitate batch processing. To access its
Command Line Arguments window, open a command prompt window (select Accessories |
Command Prompt from the Start menu). Change directory (cd) to the directory on the hard drive on
which Convert4 is stored. Type the following: convert4 -h
The Convert4 Command Line Arguments window appears as shown in Figure 10.
Figure 10: Convert4 Command Line Arguments
The name of the output file is the same as the input file when converting to ASCII or binary formats.
The file extension, however, is altered to indicate the format of the data:
*.asc for ASCII
*.bin for binary
When converting to RINEX, the output files are named according to the RINEX Version 2.10 naming
convention, see Section 4.3.1, RINEX Format on page 50.
The -batch arguments suppress the window display and convert the specified file automatically.
When converting to RINEX in batch mode, the navigation and observation file header
information from the most recent interactive Convert4 session is used.
a. Information from this log overrides data entered into the Receiver
Number, Type and Version fields using the OBS file button of the
RINEX Headers section, see Figure 9 on page 50.