TSV Test (Tab Separated Values)

• UNIX:

  add the following viewer entry to your mailcap file:
  

  text/tab-separated-values; xmgr %s 
  

  where xmgr and xgraph are xy graphing programs.
  You may quickly get a copy of xgraph-11.tar.Z or xmgr-3.01.tar.Z for UNIX systems. Note that this copy may not be as recent as the previous reference however.
  
  
  
  

• PCs:

  To set up the TSV viewer, enter the following into the HelperApplication or ExternalViewer dialog box in your Web Browser:
  
  

  MIME type / subtype	text/tab-separated-values
  extensions	tsv
  application	wintab

  where wintab is one of many xy graphing programs. You may quickly get a copy of wintab.zip for Windows.

  Note that you may need to supply the complete path to the application. Also, some browsers need a '.' preceeding the extensions entry.
  
  
  

• Mac:

  To set up the TSV viewer, enter the following into the HelperApplication or ExternalViewer dialog box in your Web Browser:
  
  

  MIME type / subtype	text/tab-separated-values
  extensions	tsv
  application	IgorPro

  IgorPro is a tsv viewer which is available for the Macintosh.
  
  
  
  

Detailed file information

The graph shown above uses the standard text/tab-separated-value MIME type and the header line is designed for maximum portability, e.g.:

#x	y
4.2	1.0
-3.2	1.3
10.1	0.4
2.0	-0.5

The use of the leading '#' character is not standard but is included for maxmimum portability with some older graphing packages. The use of the '#' character will be removed once more packages support native TSV data. Note that TAB characters separate the columns. The titles ('x' and 'y' in this case) may be of arbitrary length and may contain spaces but must not contain TAB characters.

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