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 sddseventhist
 4.47 sddsexpand
 4.48 sddsexpfit
 4.49 sddsfdfilter
 4.50 sddsfft
 4.51 sddsfindin2dgrid
 4.52 sddsgenericfit
 4.53 sddsgfit
 4.54 sddshist
 4.55 sddshist2d
 4.56 sddsimageconvert
 4.57 sddsimageprofiles
 4.58 sddsinsideboundaries
 4.59 sddsinteg
 4.60 sddsinterp
 4.61 sddsinterpset
 4.62 sddskde2d
 4.63 sddslocaldensity
 4.64 sddslorentzianfit
 4.65 sddsmakedataset
 4.66 sddsmatrix2column
 4.67 sddsmatrixmult
 4.68 sddsmatrixop
 4.69 sddsminterp
 4.70 sddsmpfit
 4.71 sddsmselect
 4.72 sddsmultihist
 4.73 sddsmxref
 4.74 sddsnaff
 4.75 sddsnormalize
 4.76 sddsoutlier
 4.77 sddspeakfind
 4.78 sddspfit
 4.79 sddsplot
 4.80 sddspoly
 4.81 sddsprintout
 4.82 sddsprocess
 4.83 sddspseudoinverse
 4.84 sddsquery
 4.85 sddsregroup
 4.86 sddsremoveoffsets
 4.87 sddsrespmatrixderivative
 4.88 sddsrowstats
 4.89 sddsrunstats
 4.90 sddssampledist
 4.91 sddsselect
 4.92 sddsseparate
 4.93 sddssequence
 4.94 sddsshift
 4.95 sddsshiftcor
 4.96 sddssinefit
 4.97 sddsslopes
 4.98 sddssmooth
 4.99 sddssnap2grid
 4.100 sddssort
 4.101 sddssortcolumn
 4.102 sddssplinefit
 4.103 sddssplit
 4.104 sddsspotanalysis
 4.105 sddstdrpeeling
 4.106 sddstimeconvert
 4.107 sddstranspose
 4.108 sddsunwrap
 4.109 sddsvslopes
 4.110 sddsxra
 4.111 sddsxref
 4.112 sddszerofind
 4.113 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