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scans.4 only uses some of the control lines in the standard spec data files described earlier.

The control conventions used by scans.4 are:

`#S number`	Starts a new scan. number is the user's numbering scheme.
`#M number`	Indicates data was taken counting to number monitor counts.
`#T number`	Indicates data was taken counting for number seconds.
`#N number`	Indicates there are number columns of data.

The following control lines do nothing, although they will be printed to the screen while reading a scan.

`#C comment ...`	Conventionally a comment.
`#D date`	Conventionally the date.
`#L lab1 lab2 ...`	Conventionally data column labels, with each label separated by two spaces.