Retrieval - Polydata

POLYDATA is an interactive program designed to provide easy access to the data bases compiled in conjunction with the Handbook. The data bases are lengthy, and searching the files manually with an editor could be done, but would be very inefficient. POLYDATA was designed to make searching for pure polymer and polymer solution data easy. 

The CONFIG.SYS file in the root-directory of the computer hard disk should be checked to be sure that it allows the opening of a minimum of 15 files. That is, it should contain the following line  

If it is necessary to modify the CONFIG.SYS file, the computer must be rebooted before running POLYDATA. 

The program can now be started by entering POLYDATA followed by a return. 

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Section 4D lists the systems for which data are included on the diskettes. A computer program is provided to retrieve the data from the data files. This program, called POLYDATA, is described in Section 5B. 

In the following sections are listings of the pure polymer and polymer-solvent systems that can be retrieved from the data base files included in the Handbook. The POLYDATA program is recommended to interactively examine these data bases. 

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