1 Why Use Self-Describing Files?
2 Definition of SDDS Protocol
 2.1 Introduction
 2.2 Structure of the SDDS Header
  2.2.1 Data Set Description
  2.2.2 Tabular-Data Column Definition
  2.2.3 Parameter Definition
  2.2.4 Array Data Definition
  2.2.5 Header File Include Specification
  2.2.6 Data Mode and Arrangement Defintion
 2.3 Structure of SDDS ASCII Data Pages
 2.4 Structure of SDDS Binary Data Pages
3 Manual Pages Overview
 3.1 SDDS Toolkit Programs by Category
  3.1.1 Mathematical Operations Tools
  3.1.2 Statistics Tools
  3.1.3 Digital Signal Processing Tools
  3.1.4 Data Fitting Tools
  3.1.5 Data Manipulation Tools
  3.1.6 Graphics Tools
  3.1.7 Image Processing Tools
  3.1.8 Miscellaneous Tools
  3.1.9 File Protocol Conversion Tools
  3.1.10 Text-based Data-review Tools
 3.2 Toolkit Program Usage Conventions
 3.3 Data for Examples
  3.3.1 Twiss Parameters
  3.3.2 Data Logging Over Time
4 Manual Pages
 4.1 csv2sdds
 4.2 elegant2genesis
 4.3 hdf2sdds
 4.4 hpif2sdds
 4.5 image2sdds
 4.6 lba2sdds
 4.7 plaindata2sdds
 4.8 raw2sdds
 4.9 sdds2dfft
 4.10 sdds2dinterpolate
 4.11 sdds2dpfit
 4.12 sdds2headlessdata
 4.13 sdds2math
 4.14 sdds2plaindata
 4.15 sdds2spreadsheet
 4.16 sdds2stream
 4.17 sdds2tiff
 4.18 sddsanalyticsignal
 4.19 sddsarray2column
 4.20 sddsbaseline
 4.21 sddsbinarystring
 4.22 sddsbreak
 4.23 sddscast
 4.24 sddschanges
 4.25 sddscheck
 4.26 sddscliptails
 4.27 sddscollapse
 4.28 sddscollect
 4.29 sddscombine
 4.30 sddscombinelogfiles
 4.31 sddscongen
 4.32 sddscontour
 4.33 sddsconvert
 4.34 sddsconvertalarmlog
 4.35 sddsconvolve
 4.36 sddscorrelate
 4.37 sddsderef
 4.38 sddsderiv
 4.39 sddsdiff
 4.40 sddsdigfilter
 4.41 sddsdistest
 4.42 sddsduplicate
 4.43 sddseditor
 4.44 sddsendian
 4.45 sddsenvelope
 4.46 sddsgroupedenvelope
 4.47 sddseventhist
 4.48 sddsexpand
 4.49 sddsexpfit
 4.50 sddsfdfilter
 4.51 sddsfft
 4.52 sddsfindin2dgrid
 4.53 sddsgenericfit
 4.54 sddsgfit
 4.55 sddshist
 4.56 sddshist2d
 4.57 sddsimageconvert
 4.58 sddsimageprofiles
 4.59 sddsinsideboundaries
 4.60 sddsinteg
 4.61 sddsinterp
 4.62 sddsinterpset
 4.63 sddskde
 4.64 sddskde2d
 4.65 sddslocaldensity
 4.66 sddslorentzianfit
 4.67 sddsmakedataset
 4.68 sddsmatrix2column
 4.69 sddsmatrixmult
 4.70 sddsmatrixop
 4.71 sddsminterp
 4.72 sddsmpfit
 4.73 sddsmselect
 4.74 sddsmultihist
 4.75 sddsmxref
 4.76 sddsnaff
 4.77 sddsnormalize
 4.78 sddsoutlier
 4.79 sddspeakfind
 4.80 sddspfit
 4.81 sddsplot
 4.82 sddspoly
 4.83 sddsprintout
 4.84 sddsprocess
 4.85 sddspseudoinverse
 4.86 sddsquery
 4.87 sddsregroup
 4.88 sddsremoveoffsets
 4.89 sddsrespmatrixderivative
 4.90 sddsrowstats
 4.91 sddsrunstats
 4.92 sddssampledist
 4.93 sddsselect
 4.94 sddsseparate
 4.95 sddssequence
 4.96 sddsshift
 4.97 sddsshiftcor
 4.98 sddssinefit
 4.99 sddsslopes
 4.100 sddssmooth
 4.101 sddssnap2grid
 4.102 sddssort
 4.103 sddssortcolumn
 4.104 sddssplinefit
 4.105 sddssplit
 4.106 sddsspotanalysis
 4.107 sddstdrpeeling
 4.108 sddstimeconvert
 4.109 sddstranspose
 4.110 sddsunwrap
 4.111 sddsvslopes
 4.112 sddsxra
 4.113 sddsxref
 4.114 sddszerofind
 4.115 tiff2sdds
5 Manual Pages for Misc Features
 5.1 rpn Calculator Module
 5.2 SDDS Editing
 5.3 SDDS Wildcard Conventions
6 Manual Pages for APS-Specific Programs
 6.1 awe2sdds
 6.2 col2sdds
 6.3 mpl2sdds
 6.4 sdds2mpl
7 Manual Pages for Synchrotron Radiation Programs
 7.1 sddssyncflux