PAW Frequently Asked Questions



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1 Text output in PAW (font/precision and characters graphical view) 26149 24/05/2012 22:41:03
2 A graphical view of the SET parameters. 23775 24/05/2012 22:41:04
3 How to access fit parameters after a fit operation ? 19512 24/05/2012 22:41:07
4 How to use colors, hatching and fill patterns in PAW ? 698 24/05/2012 22:41:04
5 How to rename the fit parameters ? 16240 24/05/2012 22:41:07
6 The PAW graphical window is corrupted when overlapped with another window. 15705 24/05/2012 22:41:09
7 How to fit 2D histograms? Is there a way to fit a line to a scatter plot ? 14006 24/05/2012 22:41:10
8 How to create very large ntuples (RWN or CWN) ? 14036 24/05/2012 22:41:11
9 A graphical view of the marker types available. 12777 24/05/2012 22:41:15
10 How to create a legend ? 12291 24/05/2012 22:41:15
11 Dynamic linking (shared libraries). 11963 23/05/2012 20:57:25
12 GIF ? 11565 23/05/2012 20:57:25
13 Axis labelling and divisions optimisation 11158 23/05/2012 20:57:26
14 How to print the output of HIST/FIT into a text file ? 10525 23/05/2012 20:57:26
15 How to fit 2-D vectors in PAW ? 9848 24/05/2012 04:14:42
16 How to define the colour map for the option COLZ of HISTO/PLOT ? 9839 23/05/2012 20:57:27
17 How to re-scale an histogram ? 9658 24/05/2012 11:22:56
18 How to execute a macro in batch mode ? 9112 23/05/2012 20:57:27
19 A vector field drawing COMIS routine for Ntuple (2D and 3D). 8968 23/05/2012 20:57:28
20 How to combine n Ntuples into only one ? 8882 23/05/2012 20:57:28
21 Can I run PAW on my MacIntosh ? 8852 23/05/2012 20:57:29
22 How to rebuild PAW with a larger memory ? 8729 23/05/2012 20:57:29
23 A macro to draw the histograms statistics. 8142 24/05/2012 14:23:57
24 How to produce a graph from data stored in an ASCII file ? 8179 23/05/2012 20:57:30
25 How to position the axis titles in the middle of each axis instead at the end ? 8129 23/05/2012 20:57:30
26 How to use a COMIS function rather than subroutine in a macro ? 8114 23/05/2012 20:57:31
27 How to fit a function taking into account errors on both (X and Y) axis ? 8205 24/05/2012 21:55:14
28 How to use COMIS in a FORTRAN program ? 8220 24/05/2012 14:18:18
29 How to redefine the scale and redraw axis on the current plot ? 7966 23/05/2012 20:57:32
30 In a program, how to access histograms produced by an other process ? 7948 23/05/2012 20:57:32
31 PostScript metafile type. 8078 24/05/2012 21:48:12
32 How to call CERN Library from C or C++ ? 7846 23/05/2012 20:57:33
33 How to compute the Sum, Integral and the Mean Value of a given histogram between two channels ? 7953 23/05/2012 20:57:33
34 Why SET and IGSET ? 7482 23/05/2012 20:57:34
35 How to fit a histogram with another one ? 7443 23/05/2012 20:57:34
36 How to draw a 3D scatter plot with vectors ? 7310 23/05/2012 20:57:35
37 How to retrieve histogram information in macro ? 7323 24/05/2012 11:22:10
38 List of the available line styles. 7281 24/05/2012 14:50:31
39 How to create a Column Wise NTuple (CWN) ? 7299 23/05/2012 20:57:36
40 How to duplicate an Ntuple with some selections ? 7306 23/05/2012 20:57:36
41 How to generate a PostScript file with the picture currently on the screen ? 7127 24/05/2012 13:19:32
42 How to interpret a COMIS file from a compiled f77 program ? 7047 23/05/2012 20:57:37
43 Minuit output description. 437 24/05/2012 20:13:32
44 How to set plots ranges ? 6991 23/05/2012 20:57:38
45 How to access PAW vectors in a COMIS program ? 6974 23/05/2012 20:57:40
46 How to plot a ntuple variable as error bars ? 6899 24/05/2012 21:05:00
47 How to draw a function ? 6809 23/05/2012 20:57:38
48 2D scatter plots ? 6795 23/05/2012 20:57:39
49 How much memory should be reserved in the PAWC common block to store a Column Wise Ntuple (CWN) ? 6701 23/05/2012 20:57:38
50 How to call a C program in PAW ? 6603 24/05/2012 16:02:10
51 In CONTOUR, how to choose associated colours to each level ?. 6635 24/05/2012 14:51:42
52 How to access the covariance matrix after a fit operation ? 6628 23/05/2012 20:57:41
53 How to convert a Row Wise Ntuple (RWN) into a Column Wise Ntuple (CWN) ? 6670 24/05/2012 14:21:41
54 How to put the result of a vector fit in a vector instead of plotting the result ? 6547 23/05/2012 20:57:42
55 Is there a list of Paw++ resources? 6489 23/05/2012 20:57:42
56 How to remove the axis and the histogram box ? 6497 23/05/2012 20:57:42
57 Text output in PAW: alignment 6527 23/05/2012 20:57:43
58 How to pass a character string from a COMIS program to a macro and vice versa ? 6494 23/05/2012 20:57:43
59 How to get the output of NT/SCAN into a file ? 6462 23/05/2012 20:57:44
60 How to create, fill and plot a projection of a 2D histogram ? 6544 24/05/2012 08:18:48
61 How to move the STATistics box ? 6432 23/05/2012 20:57:44
62 How the parameter RMS is defined and calculated ? 6448 23/05/2012 20:57:45
63 Normalisation Transformations priorities and PostScript output. 6436 23/05/2012 20:57:45
64 Why does PAW crash when trying to open a big NTUPLE file ? 6372 23/05/2012 20:57:45
65 How to plot a histogram in green with a black border ? 6371 23/05/2012 20:57:46
66 Is there a way to output the contents of the MESSAGE command to a file instead of to the terminal ? 6342 24/05/2012 02:42:42
67 How to write a text independently from the histogram coordinates ? 6366 23/05/2012 20:57:47
68 How to define several Y-Scales on the same plot ? 6354 23/05/2012 20:57:47
69 How to suppress the X or Y labels on the axis ? 6355 24/05/2012 02:09:08
70 Why "EXTERNAL" doesn't work in COMIS routines ? 6327 23/05/2012 20:57:48
71 How to recover in two different vectors the X and Y values of a 2D histogram ? 6314 23/05/2012 20:57:48
72 How to create a disk resident Row Wise Ntuple (RWN) ? 280 24/05/2012 20:39:13
73 How to draw contours graphically in MINUIT ? 6378 23/05/2012 20:57:49
74 Offsetting superimposed histograms 6243 24/05/2012 23:36:53
75 How to change the histogram title drawn by H/PLOT ? 6222 23/05/2012 20:57:50
76 How to specify a good buffer size for RW-Ntuples ? 6151 23/05/2012 20:57:50
77 Workstation type ? 306 24/05/2012 15:19:07
78 How to fit a projection of a 2D histogram ? 6141 24/05/2012 02:47:38
79 How to read two Column Wise Ntuples (CWN) simultaneously ? 6233 24/05/2012 14:14:45
80 Is there an intrinsic limit on the number of permitted cuts ? 6009 23/05/2012 20:57:52
81 Minuit options setting. 5989 23/05/2012 20:57:52
82 How to fill a vector element by element in a macro ? 5960 23/05/2012 20:57:52
83 H/PLOT option '+' with multiple zones and related points ... 5985 24/05/2012 11:27:31
84 I cannot open HBOOK files which contains upper case letters ? 5918 23/05/2012 20:57:53
85 Axis labelling optimisation in logarithmic scales. 5962 24/05/2012 02:32:55
86 How to control the polygon filling ? 5931 24/05/2012 16:09:17
87 Type of the UWFUNC generated function (Since version 2.07) 5878 23/05/2012 20:57:54
88 Weights in profile histograms. 5833 23/05/2012 20:57:55
89 How to use the command LINE in LOG scales ? 5838 23/05/2012 20:57:55
90 A macro to move a histogram (2d) in a larger one 201 24/05/2012 14:23:33
91 MINUIT precision. 5853 23/05/2012 20:57:56
92 Can I enlarge the fonts in the color table ? 5786 23/05/2012 20:57:56
93 How many arguments can have a UWFUNC generated function ? 5749 23/05/2012 20:57:57
94 How to get informations about Column Wise Ntuple (CWN) columns ? 5722 23/05/2012 20:57:57
95 How to make aligned subscripts and superscripts in the command TEXT ? 5687 24/05/2012 14:49:42
96 Histogram hatch style in a PostScript file? 254 23/05/2012 20:57:58
97 How to access ntuple variables by numbers since version 2.07 ? 5719 23/05/2012 20:57:58
98 HMERGE and histograms in memory 5689 24/05/2012 02:45:10
99 HFITHN and HFITGA .. 5492 23/05/2012 20:57:59
100 UWFUNC COMMON blocks description. 5470 23/05/2012 20:57:59
101 How to plot a 2-dim histogram with projections, with the Y-projection rotated by 90 degrees ? 5447 23/05/2012 20:58:00
102 How to merge several Column Wise Ntuple (CWN) with some selection ? 5403 23/05/2012 20:58:01
103 Customizing Emacs for "kumac" files. 5501 24/05/2012 08:36:40
104 How to retrieve the bin which contains the maximum value of a 1D histogram ? 5393 24/05/2012 11:23:16
105 How to copy a column of a Ntuple into a VECTOR ? 5472 24/05/2012 20:40:36
106 Emacs style editing in PAW++ 5384 23/05/2012 20:58:02
107 RZOUT: Directory too big .... 5316 23/05/2012 20:58:02
108 Is it possible to define a new command in PAW at run-time ? 5358 23/05/2012 20:58:03
109 Numbers in macro variables 5407 24/05/2012 17:15:02
110 How to retrieve all the commands that went into producing a plot ? 5295 23/05/2012 20:58:10
111 How to redraw the axis of current zone when they have been erased by some extra drawing ? 5283 23/05/2012 20:58:04
112 How to access the current status of minimization after a fit operation ? 5255 23/05/2012 20:58:04
113 How to make a cumulative graph of several cut NTUPLEs ? 5279 23/05/2012 20:58:04
114 What is wrong with integer vectors ? 5134 23/05/2012 20:58:05
115 How do I change the marker size used in the command "HI/PLOT id E" ? 5192 23/05/2012 20:58:05
116 How to attach all the HBOOK files in the current directory ? (UNIX only) 5092 23/05/2012 20:58:07
117 How to list histograms with limits on the IDs ? 5071 23/05/2012 20:58:07
118 Default histogram binning in ntuple commands since version 2.07 ? 5126 23/05/2012 20:58:07
119 How to use HFITV in a batch program ? 5127 23/05/2012 20:58:07
120 A macro to place a text in relative coordinates. 5057 23/05/2012 20:58:07
121 How to group two Column Wise Ntuple (CWN) ? 5093 23/05/2012 20:58:08
122 "Wrong number of arguments" in ntuple commands using COMIS functions (Since version 2.07) 5031 23/05/2012 20:58:08
123 How to transfer a HBOOK file from a machine to an other ? 5008 23/05/2012 20:58:09
124 How to change the line type for ellipses drawing ? 5056 23/05/2012 20:58:09
125 A macro to plot histograms with a given number of decades 4986 23/05/2012 20:58:09
126 Why SET XMGL, SET YMGU etc... doesn't work with several zones ? 4956 23/05/2012 20:58:10
127 Why DZERO is not callable in PAW ? 5009 23/05/2012 20:58:11
128 Why the commands FAREA, PLINE and PMARKER don't work in log scale ? 4925 23/05/2012 20:58:11
129 What means: " ***** ERROR in IPM : Not enough space in memory" ? 5007 23/05/2012 20:58:11
130 How to check, with $hexist, the existence of an histogram on an HBOOK RZ file ? 4919 23/05/2012 20:58:12
131 "error in CFOPEN" (HBOOK version 4.24/03) 4939 23/05/2012 20:58:12
132 Why do I need to specify the unit number on which I open a HBOOK file ? 4852 23/05/2012 20:58:12
133 How to extend a Column Wise Ntuple (CWN) ? 4836 23/05/2012 20:58:13
134 How to change X window resources in Paw++ ? 4857 23/05/2012 20:58:13
135 How to read in batch an existing Row Wise Ntuple (RWN) ? 4850 23/05/2012 20:58:14
136 What means "***** ERROR in HBNAME : Too many variables in format (>50)" ? 4931 23/05/2012 20:58:14
137 How can I change the colours used by the FUN/DRAW command? 4775 23/05/2012 20:58:15
138 How to keep PAW from converting macro variables into integers ? 4797 23/05/2012 20:58:14
139 Why UNITS does not show all the files opened via HISTO/FILE ? 4761 23/05/2012 20:58:15
140 How to change the EPS parameter in routine HFITH ? 4768 23/05/2012 20:58:16
141 In Paw++ what is causing the messages "unknown keysym osfDown..." ? 4789 23/05/2012 20:58:16
142 How to use HQUADF.DAT (output of the SMOOTH command) in PAW ? 4796 23/05/2012 20:58:16
143 Complex vectors in SIGMA. 4748 23/05/2012 20:58:17
144 ERROR in HFNT bad float in column... 4829 24/05/2012 03:52:44
145 The character strings concatenation operator (//) in COMIS programs. 4747 23/05/2012 20:58:18
146 How to get the sum of the positive elements of a Column Wise Ntuple (CWN) array variable ? 4708 24/05/2012 11:28:07
147 How to display an histogram with a zoom of the same histogram on top ? 4761 23/05/2012 20:58:18
148 How do I change the size of the text which is printed in a 2D histogram... 213 23/05/2012 20:58:19
149 Why Only the last dimension of a multi-dimensional Column Wise Ntuple (CWN) array may be variable ? 4703 23/05/2012 20:58:19
150 "Cannot open file so_locations to update" 4685 23/05/2012 20:58:20
151 Running MINUIT in batch, sometimes stops with a "STATUS=CALL LIMIT" 4711 23/05/2012 20:58:20
152 How to stop the fast scrolling of H/LIST ? 4598 23/05/2012 20:58:20
153 NT/SCAN and unsigned integers (Since version 2.07) 4624 24/05/2012 19:53:45
154 Is there a way to teach the Kuip browser to use icons for particular files ? 4682 23/05/2012 20:58:21
155 How to retrieve the ntuple type (RWN or CWN) in a HBOOK program ? 4599 23/05/2012 20:58:21
156 How to manage two windows in a HIGZ program ? 4613 24/05/2012 14:28:13
157 Unaligned access using PAW on a DEC Alpha running UNIX. 4610 23/05/2012 20:58:22
158 What is maximum number of variables in a Column Wise Ntuple (CWN) ? 4577 23/05/2012 20:58:23
159 Why LRECL=0 doesn't work in HIST/FILE ? 4615 23/05/2012 20:58:23
160 How to read in batch an existing Column Wise Ntuple (CWN) ? 4570 23/05/2012 20:58:24
161 Is there a way to open HBOOK files directly from tape ? 4559 23/05/2012 20:58:24
162 How to draw the tick marks on the opposite side of the axis ? 4583 23/05/2012 20:58:24
163 H/DEL prints an error when the histogram doesn't exist. How to avoid it ? 4581 23/05/2012 20:58:25
164 How to draw a vector element into a comment ? 4564 23/05/2012 20:58:25
165 What means: "RZIODO. Error at record ..." ? 4534 23/05/2012 20:58:25
166 Conversion from NDC coordinates to centimeters 4508 24/05/2012 02:07:25
167 How to access X resources for Paw++ under VAX/VMS ? 4538 23/05/2012 20:58:26
168 How to convert HBOOK3 files into HBOOK4 files ? 4493 23/05/2012 20:58:27
169 How to access the QUEST common block in a C program ? 4485 23/05/2012 20:58:27
170 "Index out of range" in ntuple commands (Since version 2.07) 4423 23/05/2012 20:58:27
171 I try to open an Ntuple on an NFS mounted Unix disk from VMS PAW, but I get an error from PAWROP... 4443 23/05/2012 20:58:28
172 List of the logical unit numbers reserved by PAW and associated packages. 4421 23/05/2012 20:58:28
173 Is it possible to change from "insert" to "overwrite" input mode when typing at PAW prompt? 4362 23/05/2012 20:58:29
174 How to access HBOOK files via RFIO and CASTOR ? 4294 23/05/2012 20:58:29
175 Negative weights in HBOOK histograms. 4319 23/05/2012 20:58:29
176 How to retrieve the list of the currently attached HBOOK files ? 4259 23/05/2012 20:58:30
177 Resources for PAW++ on a monochrome display ? 4253 23/05/2012 20:58:30
178 The FUTIL parameter in MINUIT functions. 4270 23/05/2012 20:58:30
179 Why MINUIT finds only 10 points on a contour when 100 are requested ? 4195 23/05/2012 20:58:31
180 How to get the PROB value in a variable after a DIFF command ? 4192 23/05/2012 20:58:31
181 What is the longest line COMIS can read in a file ? 4165 23/05/2012 20:58:32
182 Which resources are decisive for my application ? 4159 23/05/2012 20:58:32
183 How to include a HIGZ graphic window in a X11/Motif application ? 4197 23/05/2012 20:58:32
184 How to recover a corrupted Ntuple ? 4151 23/05/2012 20:58:33
185 Hexadecimal constants in COMIS. 4083 23/05/2012 20:58:33
186 How to use HFITH from a C program ? 4090 23/05/2012 20:58:34
187 Corrupted ASCII files after a transfer from Windows. 4066 23/05/2012 20:58:34
188 How to read histograms in a batch program ? 3106 23/05/2012 20:58:34
189 CHAIN names length 2630 23/05/2012 20:58:35
190 List of the SIGMA functions. 2758 23/05/2012 20:58:35
191 How to retrieve the Overflows and Underflows of a 2D histogram ? 2276 24/05/2012 22:41:22
192 The COMIS compiler (source format). 1673 24/05/2012 22:41:21

Number of FAQs 192
Total number of accesses 1184140
Average number of accesses per FAQ 6167


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