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5. Records Menu
This menu offers a range of tools that allow you to manipulate whole records with a BINX file. Each
TL, OSL, POSL etc measurement is a single record within a BINX file. You may wish to edit the
parameters describing each record, or to copy records from one BINX file to another one.
The options in this menu are:
Select
Unselect
Edit Current Record
Block Edit
Highlight All Records
Copy Highlighted Records
Paste Records
Delete Highlighted Records
Move Highlighted Records
New Record
5.1 Select
Selecting and unselecting records is a vital part of processing your data. Using ‘Select All…’ and
‘Unselect All…’ you can choose which records you want selected and which not. There are three
sub-menu options – (a) You can choose to select all the highlighted records, (b) every record
in the current BINX file, or (c) just those records of a certain type. This last option is the most
flexible, and is particularly useful if you want to undertake analysis of a complex data file. You can
use any of the parameters listed in the BINX file (see Appendix A) to filter which records you wish
to select.
Figure 5.1(a): Selecting records based on the value of a specific variable within each record.
In this case those records where the luminescence type is OSL will be selected.
A simple case is shown above where one wants to restrict analysis to the OSL data collected in
the sequence. Another situation where this facility is useful is if you have undertaken a sequence
with lots of regeneration doses, but you want to look at the dose response curve from a subset
of these measurements. Aother example is where you have used the post-IR IRSL method and
have mutliple IRSL measurements. Using the Select Records option you can select only those
records that were IRSL measurements made at an elevated temperature. This can be done by
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