# Results

Abstract

Every time Simfit performs a calculation, the results are written to a log file, so that you can save a permanent record for retrospective use.

Details

The following important facts should be noted.

1. The Simfit results files are simple ASCII text files with no formatting for font, wrap round, or tables, but they do have the usual Windows characters 10 and 13 for hard returns. If you want to preserve the table formatting for printing or including in documents, you can do so by selecting a monospaced font, such as Courier New. However Simfit now provides a facility to extract tables from results files and transform them into either tabbed text, html, xml, or LaTeX for importing into documents. This is by far the easiest way to generate formatted hardcopy, or to include Simfit results tables in documents, and is described in the tutorial document called

           extracting_tables_from_simfit_results_files.pdf.

2. The way that Simfit stores log files for archive purposes will now be explained.
3. Every time Simfit performs data analysis the results are written to the file

           ...\ProgramData\Simfit\user\res\f$result.txt

   and all previously created results files will be re-named as follows depending on the current setting, where there will be xyz + 1 files saved in all.

           f$result.xyz is deleted
           ...
           ...
           f$result.100 is re-named as f$result.101
           f$result.099 is re-named as f$result.100
           f$result.098 is re-named as f$result.099
           ...
           ...
           f$result.001 is re-named as f$result.002
           f$result.txt is re-named as f$result.001

4. From the Simfit program manager you can view, print, edit, or save any current results files so that you have many opportunities to archive important results for retrospective use.
5. It is easy to keep track of archived results files before they are eventually deleted as the current list of archived files displays the name, date of creation, program used to create the file, and the file size.
6. To extract tables from the archived files for importing into documents you simply view the files to make sure you know the correct file, or open an archived file, then extract the table required and format it as necessary. For importing into typical Word processors choose to extract as *.html or *.xml, but for experts LaTeX output is available. These choices transform Greek character names into Greek characters and format superscripts etc. for mathematical expressions, but such additional facilities are not available with tabbed text. All that is required to incorporate such tables into a document is to simply import the files into Word processors, or paste into LaTeX documents using the clipboard.

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