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Limitations to the ALPHA histogram facilities

The default length (100000 words) of the /PAWC/ buffer of HBOOK may be too short for special uses. It may be increased by modifying the parameter LQPAW in the QUIHIS routine.

There are no ALPHA facilities to book of fill column-wise Ntuples.

If the user wants to use Ntuples with more than 80 variables, he has to use the standard HBOOK calls. The output file must be open using HROPEN and written using HROUT/HREND. See the HBOOK manual for more details.

If the user wants write very large Ntuple files which exceed the default maximum length of 64 Mbytes , he has to use the NREC and RECL parameters in the HIST data card , as described in 5.2.1 .



Joel Closier
2000-02-07