spec2nexus 2017.3.0rc1

Converts SPEC data files and scans into NeXus HDF5 files

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spec2nexus
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Converts SPEC data files and scans into NeXus HDF5 files::

$ spec2nexus path/to/file/specfile.dat

Writes ``path/to/file/specfile.hdf5``

Provides
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.. index:: SPEC, NeXus, HDF5, h5py

* **spec2nexus** : command-line tool: Convert SPEC data files to NeXus HDF5
* **h5toText** : command-line tool: Print the structure of an HDF5 file
* **extractSpecScan** : command-line tool: Save columns from SPEC data file scan(s) to TSV files
* **spec** : library: python binding to read SPEC [#]_ data files
* **eznx** : library: (Easy NeXus) supports writing NeXus [#]_ HDF5 [#]_ files using h5py [#]_
* **specplot** : command-line tool: plot a SPEC scan to an image file
* **specplot_gallery** : command-line tool: call **specplot** for all scans in a list of files, makes a web gallery

.. [#] http://certif.com
.. [#] http://nexusformat.org
.. [#] http://hdfgroup.org
.. [#] http://h5py.org

:author: Pete R. Jemian
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