Tektronix 071-0855-05 user manual ResultsViewer, Operation, Opening files on the local computer

Operating Basics: User Interface

ResultsViewer

The OTS Results Viewer is a stand-alone Windows program that reads the Test Results files from the OTS Test System. It provides the following functionality:

Access to test results files, either on the OTS system or on the file system of the computer that is running ResultsViewer

Display of results data – Cumulative Results, Analysis, and History – with the same presentation as the OTS User Interface, TekUI

Printing of Cumulative Results and Analysis data, and export of the same text to an ASCII text file or the Windows clipboard

Export of Cumulative Results, Analysis, and History data in delimited ASCII-text form, to a file or to the Windows clipboard

Printing of History data to a graphical form

Copying results files to a directory on the local file system

NOTE: The results of a test are stored in two files, with the same file name but different extensions. One has extension .sum (summary information) and one has the extension .his (history data). Although ResultsViewer file selection operations involve only the .sum file, both files are used and must be present and in the same directory. Therefore,

If you copy a test's results files to another computer or directory, you must copy both the ".sum" and the ".his" files

If you rename a test's results files, you must rename both the ".sum" and ".his" file to have the same name

If you use the File menu Save As function to copy the currently active test results to a directory on the local computer, the operation creates both the “.sum” and the “.his” files under the specified name

Operation

To start ResultsViewer, double-click on its icon. It can also be started from TekUI, by clicking on the View menu and selecting Test Results.

Opening files on the local computer

On the Local computer:

To open a file locally, click on File and select Open Local File. A dialog box displays from which the user may select one or more test results files. Files with an extension of .sum are test results files.

On the OTS System:

To open a file on the OTS system, the ResultsViewer must be connected to an operating OTS system. Once the ResultsViewer is connected, click on File and select Open File on Server. A dialog box appears with a listing of all available files, their creation times, and any Test Description text with which the user annotated the test.

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