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File Naming Convention

The constituents of the current calibration file are named as follows:

scope_calname_issue.ccf

where:

scope

indicates the scope of the calibration file (at most 5 characters long). The list of scope identifiers is given in table 1.

calname

is the calibration data type identifier (at most 17 characters long).

issue

is the file issue number (integer $\ge 0$ and $\le 9999$, zero padded).

File names are not case sensitive. In this document they are type set with uppper and lower case letters for readability.

Table 1: Allowed scope identifiers

xmm	general files or files shared by more than one instrument
om	Optical Monitor files
xrt1, xrt2, xrt3	X-ray Telescope files
emos1, emos2	European Photon Imaging Camera MOS files
epn	European Photon Imaging Camera PN files
rgs1, rgs2	Reflection Grating Spectrometer files
erm	EPIC Radiation Monitor files