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Cumulus maintains a daily file of the highs and lows of each day, as well as a few other nuggets of information. The data contained in the file are used to build the graphs. | Cumulus maintains a daily file of the highs and lows of each day, as well as a few other nuggets of information. The data contained in the file are used to build the graphs. | ||
==Editing in Cumulus== | ==Editing in Cumulus== | ||
The last command in '''Edit''' menu is ''dayfile.txt''. This is a text editor, and works best when at full screen | The last command in '''Edit''' menu is ''dayfile.txt''. This is a text editor, and works best when at full screen. | ||
You can use this editor to correct individual values by overtyping | You can use this editor to correct individual values by overtyping. | ||
'''Note for version 1.9.3 only:''' | The '''Create missing''' button will insert missing rows (complete days) by reading and calculating from [[Monthly_log_files]] (a technique that is useful for importing, and processing, pre-Cumulus observations, and that procedure is explained in the [[Monthly_log_files |Wiki topic]] in greater detail than is possible in the ''Help''). Click the ''Help'' button for detailed instructions. Cumulus Help is comprehensive and explains how a list of inserted records is produced. | ||
If just some fields are missing from a particular row (meteorological day) on day file, then there is a [[Monthly_log_files#Using_Monthly_logs_to_deal_with_shorter_.28or_incomplete.29_dayfile.txt_records_for_particular_dates | workaround]] as at all current versions (up to 1.9.4) you can only import from the [[Monthly_log_files]] if the whole date (row) is missing in ''dayfile.txt''. | |||
'''Note for version 1.9.3 only:''' Create missing might in some cases be affected by a bug in 1.9.3 that can cause incorrect date order for records (dayfile.txt uses dd/mm/yy or dd-mm-yy and all records should be in ascending chronological order), any bugs are believed fixed in version 1.9.4. | |||
==Manipulation outside Cumulus== | ==Manipulation outside Cumulus== |
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