ascii2vert (creates flat file index) updated

[Henrik Nordberg <HNordberg@lbl.gov>]

Hello,

ascii2vert, the program that takes as input an ASCII file containing
tags that should be indexed and produces binary files that the Query
Estimator is using, has been updated.
It now also produces a ".tdc file". This file gives a description of the
data set (number of properties, name of the set etc.) and of all the
properties in the index it creates. It also contains a default binning
setup. This makes it possible to run the clustering algorithm directly
after running ascii2vert (without calling me first ;-) and it also makes
it possible to create a bit map index (using mkbmp). This is important
since the QE will be using the bit map index soon.

The procedure to get the QE running with the bit map index is:

1. create ASCII file from TagDB using David Zimmerman's program
(TagFlatIndex ?).

2. ascii2vert <ascii-file> <out-dir>

3. mkbmp <out-dir>/bin_spec.tdc <out-dir>

4. cd <out-dir>

5. mkoids

Cheers, Henrik (hnordberg@lbl.gov)