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Append Model

The Results Browser Window allows you to append model results from prior runs, or if you have created input files by means other than the MARK interface program and have then processed these input files with the MARK numerical program mark.exe.. If you want to append one Results File to another, see Append DBF.

There are 3 files that must be available to append the full model results: an ASCII text output file, an ASCII text residuals file, and a binary variance-covariance file. To append a model, you must select the ASCII output file using the usual Windows file selection procedures. The default file type is ".tmp", but you can find other file names by selecting the "All Files" option. The other 2 files must differ in their names only by a single character, and must have the same file suffix, i.e., the Windows file type must be the same for all 3 files.. MARK assumes the following characters:

output file                           Y character designator
residuals file                       X character designator
variance-covariance file        V character designator

So, the following are examples of valid sets of file names.
   Example 1 (easiest to find because the default suffix of ".tmp" is used):
      LongFileNameY.tmp (ASCII text output file that you would select with the File Locator dialog append window)
      LongFileNameX.tmp (assumed name of the residuals file)
      LongFileNameV.tmp (assumed name of the variance-covariance file)
         To generate these files, you would have executed the statement
         mark i=LongFileNameZ.tmp o=LongFileNameY.tmp r=LongFileNameX.tmp v=LongFileNameV.tmp

   Example 2 (no file suffix, but still have the single character designators):
      ShortY (ASCII text output file that you would select with the File Locator dialog append window)
      ShortX (assumed name of the residuals file)
      ShortV (assumed name of the variance-covariance file)
         To generate these files, you would have executed the statement
            mark i=ShortZ o=ShortY r=ShortX v=ShortV

   Example 3 (requires the user to specify "All Files" to find the ".txt" file type):
      LongFileNameY.txt (ASCII text output file that you would select with the File Locator dialog append window)
      LongFileNameX.txt (assumed name of the residuals file)
      LongFileNameV.txt (assumed name of the variance-covariance file)
         To generate these files, you would have executed the statement
          mark i=LongFileNameZ.txt o=LongFileNameY.txt r=LongFileNameX.txt v=LongFileNameV.txt