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9.4 The Program ADDNEQ2<br />

With program SNX2STA (”Menu>Conversion>SINEX to station information” station information may<br />

be extracted from a SINEX file and written to a station information file. The information<br />

extracted includes station name and description (from “SITE/ID” block), receiver name<br />

and unit number (from “SITE/RECEIVER” block), antenna name and serial number (from<br />

“SITE/ANTENNA” block), as well as antenna eccentricity (from “SITE/ECCENTRICITY” block).<br />

All four blocks have to be present in the SINEX file.<br />

You may specify a station selection file containing a list of station names. Only stations<br />

specified in this input file will be included in the output station information file. Note that<br />

only the first 14 characters of the station names are used to identify the stations.<br />

In any case it is important to check the content of the output file and, if necessary, to adapt<br />

or complement its content.<br />

9.4.10 Conversion of Normal Equation Files<br />

9.4.10.1 Conversion from and to ASCII<br />

In order to allow the transfer of binary normal equation files between platforms that are<br />

binary incompatible (or for the rare cases where a user likes to check the content of a normal<br />

equation file with an ASCII editor) the program NEQ2ASC (”Menu>Conversion>Normal equations<br />

(binary/ASCII)”) is available. The program allows it to convert normal equation files in both<br />

directions. A list of files (binary or ASCII) may be selected for conversion in a single run.<br />

9.4.10.2 Old Normal Equation Files from ADDNEQ<br />

The main difference between the normal equation files written by ADDNEQ2 and by its<br />

predecessor ADDNEQ consists in the fact that the old normal equation files were written<br />

including the constraints while the new normal equation files are stored without any constraints.<br />

Numerical problems when changing constraints in a later run are thus avoided.<br />

Because users may have archived normal equation files written by earlier versions of<br />

the <strong>Bernese</strong> <strong>GPS</strong> <strong>Software</strong>, <strong>Version</strong> <strong>5.0</strong> contains a converter, program NEQ2NQ0 (”Menu<br />

>Conversion><strong>Version</strong> 4.2 to <strong>5.0</strong>>Normal equations (old to new format)”), allowing to convert a list of old<br />

binary normal equation files (default extension NEQ) to the new binary format (default extension<br />

NQ0). The use of the program is straightforward. The phase center eccentricity name<br />

is included for information in the new normal equation file but not in the old file and has<br />

thus to be specified in the input panel.<br />

Before converting old normal equation files to the new format users may have to transfer<br />

the files to a new platform that may be binary incompatible. It may, e.g., happen, that a<br />

user generated an archive of old normal equation files with <strong>Version</strong> 4.2 on a PC and wants<br />

now to access these files with <strong>Version</strong> <strong>5.0</strong> on a Linux system or with the software compiled<br />

with a new compiler. In order to make the necessary conversions possible, the old normal<br />

equation ASCII-to-binary converter NEQFMT is available in <strong>Version</strong> <strong>5.0</strong> (”Menu>Conversion<br />

><strong>Version</strong> 4.2 to <strong>5.0</strong>>Old normal equations (binary/ASCII)”. A conversion procedure may then look like:<br />

(1) Convert old normal equations from binary to ASCII on the old system using NEQFMT<br />

from <strong>Version</strong> 4.2 .<br />

<strong>Bernese</strong> <strong>GPS</strong> <strong>Software</strong> <strong>Version</strong> <strong>5.0</strong> Page 207

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