Extracting data from the putty.log file.

• Move (cd in unix-speak) to the lab1 directory that came with the programs you downloaded as 16299-4.zip. The lab1 directory does not need to be in your Arduino directory, since the programs in it are run on your laptop/desktop, not on the Arduino.
• Move the putty.log file into the lab1 directory (you normally could run putty from this directory and the right thing will happen.
• I ran the steps8 program and collected some data, to give you an example.
• I renamed the putty.log file steps8-1.log (the idea is to have a steps8-2, steps8-3, ...)
• I compiled and ran the parse-data.c program. On unix/linux:
  make
  ./parse-data steps8-1
  Here is what happened:
  

  $ make
  cc parse-data.c -o parse-data	
  $ mv putty.log steps8-1.log
  $ ./parse-data steps8-1
  Processing f0
  Writing description to steps8-1/f0.txt
  Writing data to steps8-1/f0.dat
  Processing f1
  Writing description to steps8-1/f1.txt
  Writing data to steps8-1/f1.dat
  Processing f2
  Writing description to steps8-1/f2.txt
  Writing data to steps8-1/f2.dat
  Processing f3
  Writing description to steps8-1/f3.txt
  Writing data to steps8-1/f3.dat
  Processing f4
  Writing description to steps8-1/f4.txt
  Writing data to steps8-1/f4.dat
  

• Take a look at the steps8-1 directory to see what files were created.

  $ ls steps8-1
  f0.dat  f1.dat  f2.dat  f3.dat  f4.dat  files.txt
  f0.txt  f1.txt  f2.txt  f3.txt  f4.txt
  

  files.txt lists all the other files (take a look at it). The .dat files are the numeric data. The .txt files are text information steps8 generated to explain the data.

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  parse-data also works for sinusoids output.

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