[Gate-users] RE: Save random flag versus ROOT output

[Hannes Hofmann]

Hi,

> Yes, at the moment my solution is the one you
> suggest - to include the ROOT output. But my simulations are run on an
> external grid, and because the files are so big it takes a long time to
> download the output files. Therefore I delete the ROOT files before
> downloading.

You could also consider disabling some output for ROOT if you do not need
them, e.g.
/gate/output/root/setRootHitFlag 0
/gate/output/root/setRootSinglesFlag 0
/gate/output/root/setRootNtupleFlag 0
etc.

> Regarding the ASCII output, yes I have had a look at these in Excel and
> they are truncated because the list is too long. But are they also
> truncated when analysing them with C-scripts such as
> benchmark_projections.c and benchmark_spectra.c? That wouldn't be
> ideal...

No, why should they... Excel is just not made for such things.

Regards,
Hannes