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Hi Max, Mike asked me to respond to this question. There aren't many SDDS tools that use the array data type. The response matrix output of elegant, which is a sequence of SDDS columns is actually used in orbit correction at APS (after inverting with sddspseudoinverse). If you want to do a numerical...

Just a curiosity I ran into. I ran elegant four times, with the essential namelist commands: &run_control steps = 20 ... &end &twiss output_at_each_step = 0 or 1 ... &end &track &end or !&track &end i.e. no track command I get different sets of output output each step track twiss file content 0 0 si...

The elegant manual recommends a different suffix for each kinds of output. In the above case I didn't follow the recommendation for trajectory_output (which I forgot): http://www.aps.anl.gov/Accelerator_Systems_Division/Operations_Analysis/manuals/elegant_ver19.0/node23.html trajectory_output -- The...

I came across a way (e.g. user error) to corrupt an output file by accidentally using the same file name for two output data: &closed_orbit output="%s.clo" ... &end &correct mode = "orbit", method = "global", trajectory_output = "%s.clo" ... &end The output file ending in .clo turned out to be a cor...