PRODUCT: MULANA
VERSION: 850828-3.03
Document: PM0041

A. Kreymer, R. Pordes, D. Ritchie
28 August 1985

  Mulana is a standard 1977 Fortran program to read a standard format
MULTI data file, producing a report of the number and type of records
present, as well as checking the data file for correct standard MULTI
format.  Both the internal form of the records, and the location of the
various begin run, end run, and camac list records within the file are
examined.  The MULTI data format is described in PN-97, and in the
MULANA writeup PM0041. 
 
  Mulana may be run either as an interactive program, for checking short
data files on disk, or as a batch job when analyzing longer data tapes. 

  To use MULANA , first define the MULANA symbol with
        $ @LIB:[LIB.MULANA]SETUP
  Then to execute the Mulana program,
       $ DEFINE TAPE1 datafile
       $ MULANA       or       $ MULANA,parameters.

  If you do not specify parameters on the MULANA statement, then
MULANA will prompt you for the number of records per file, first file
number, and the number of files to be analyzed. Reasonable defaults,
displayed in the prompt, are obtained by simply typing carriage return
at any prompt. 

  The data arrays are dimensioned to accommodate data blocks of up 8192
bytes. For larger data blocks, you must recompile the MULANA
source with larger array sizes, set by parameters MIB and MIC in
the BUFF.INC  file.
 
  Multi data tapes must be mounted with MOUNT/FOREIGN/BLOCK=maxblock,
where the block size is larger than the longest data block.  Note
that if the data tape is labeled (highly recommended), then the tape
label counts as the first file, which should be skipped either with
MULANA, or with the SET MAGT/SKIP=FILE:1 command.  You may use a COPY
statment to move MULTI data from tape to disk, but be sure to specify
an adequate BLOCK parameter when mounting the tape, to avoid record
truncation.