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close directory
Close the current archive or log file.
- Mandatory Arguments:
-
ArcFile file
- The type of file to close (archive or log).
- Examples:
- The following example opens a new archive file, waits for 5
minutes, then closes it.
open archive
until $elapsed > 5m
close archive
- Context:
- When observing, data will be archived data to disk indefinitely,
but during engineering tests it may be pointless to fill up the
disk with unwanted data, particularly if unusually high sampling
rates are being used, so it is useful to be able to turn off
archiving. Similarly, if one wants to copy an archive file to
another directory for processing it may be desireable to close it
first so that a complete file is copied.
Martin Shepherd (12-Oct-1998)