Sesame ASCII File Format Version 1.21

Technical Report · Thu Jun 13 04:00:00 EDT 2019

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1524342· OSTI ID:1524342

Young, Ginger Ann ^[1]

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1. Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

The intended audience for this document is a Sesame IO library developer or anyone trying to write or parse Sesame ASCII files with no regards to the meaning of the actual content. LA-UR-92-3407 “SESAME: The Los Alamos National Laboratory Equation Of States Database” is the current document for describing the data contained in Sesame Database. This document describes the physical format in Sesame’s ASCII files. It may have a little information about the data in these files. However, this data is only cursory. Historically Sesame ASCII files are fixed format based on old 80-character punch cards. A stack of punch cards is called a card deck. Card decks were read into a computer using card readers and the first version(s) of FORTRAN had fixed file formats. Sesame ASCII files originate from this. Each ASCII File Format file represents a card deck.

• Research Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
• DOE Contract Number: 89233218CNA000001
• OSTI ID: 1524342
• Report Number(s): LA-UR--19-24891
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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