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- ■ DATA FILES
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- PEDRAW accepts pedigree data arranged in one of four formats: as
- a PEDRAW data file, as a LINKSYS SDF file, or as a LINKAGE PED
- file either before or after passing through MAKEPED. PEDRAW
- determines the format of the file by its extension. If the
- filename ends .DAT then it is assumed to be in PEDRAW format
- <DATADAT>. If it ends .SDF it is assumed to be in LINKSYS SDF
- format (produced by using the "Export" option of LINKSYS)
- <DATASDF>. If it has the extension .PED it is assumed to be a
- LINKAGE pedigree data file before MAKEPED has been run on it
- (i.e. without sibling pointers), and if it has the extension
- .PPD then it is assumed to be a LINKAGE pedigree file output
- from MAKEPED <DATALINK>. If the data file has none of these
- extensions then the program will ask which format the file
- is in. Note that there is no way to override the default
- interpretation. That is if you have a LINKAGE file called
- PEDATAIN.DAT, PEDRAW will misread the file and report an
- error. The file would have to be renamed e.g. to
- PEDATAIN.PPD before PEDRAW could use it.
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- <DATAREST>
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