MDA Utilities

The MDA Utilities are programs and a library written for use with MDA files, as created by saveData in EPICS.

The source code and releases can also be found on github.

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-ls

Lists the MDA files in a directory with some scan parameters.

mda-info

Shows basic information as well as detectors, positioners, and triggers from an MDA file.

mdatree2ascii

This script converts a directory tree of MDA files into a new parallel directory tree populated by ASCII files, ignoring all non-MDA files.

mda-load library

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

For support of directly loading MDA files into MATLAB or Octave, go here.

Version 1.4.2 release (July 2018)

The utilities has been built on Debian Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and Mac OS X, requiring no special external libraries. It can also been built for Windows, although it's takes manual configuration (I used MinGW on Red Hat Enterprise Linux), and an optional XDR hack is included as Windows lacks a native XDR library.

• Source
• Linux 32-bit x86 binaries
• Linux 64-bit x86 binaries
• MacOS X 32-bit x86 binaries
• MacOS X 64-bit x86 binaries
• Windows binaries

Changes from 1.4.1 to 1.4.2:

• mda2ascii: Added the -b switch, which will comment out blank lines. These blanks lines can cause problems for readers and this should have been the default behavior, but I don't want to break any existing parsers that expect these blank lines.
• mda-load library: Noncritical bug fixes.
• Makefile: Removed Solaris support.
• distribution structures: Reworked the directory structures. In the source package, moved the source code into the src directory, make command will now recurse into both the doc and src directories, and there is an uninstall. In binary packages, the execuables are in the bin directory, except for Windows where they are in the exe directory.

Previous Releases

Maintained by Dohn Arms.