Ivie IE-45 STI-PA - Speech Intelligibility Analysis - Manual (Page 7)

--HOW FILES ARE MANAGED--
When the Ivie STI-PA program is launched, it loads the name of the last used Job File into the
program. The name of the Job file, along with the last AREA and LOCATION number are
loaded onto the screen. The file is opened to read this information and then it is closed.
The Job file never needs to be saved as it is automatically saved after each test is saved to the Job
File, or after the file viewer reads the file. The files are only open for the brief period of time
that the program reads from, or writes to, the file. To restate; the user never needs to save the Job
file because the program automatically saves it after each access. There is NO "Save File" menu
item in the main menu because it is not needed.
This system of file management is a boon to the user. The user can jump from file to file by
pressing the "File" menu and selecting "Open Job..." The existing Job File does not have to be
closed or saved (remember it's not open) and the newly selected file is read and loaded onto the
screen.
The user can pause in the middle of one Job to stop and review an earlier Job. Once the review
is completed, the current Job is once again selected via the "File" menu and the very next test
will be appended to that Job File.
--FILE FORMAT--
The file is saved in standard ASCII text. The file extension is ".sti" so that the Ivie STI-PA
program can easily scan for files associated with the program. Unless you have associated the
".sti" extension with your word processing program, the program will not recognize it as an
editable/viewable file.
You could use a file manager program to rename the file from StipaFile.sti to StipaFile.txt. You
could then view and edit that program. But the Ivie STI-PA program would no longer recognize
it as a file it could use.
Unfortunately, the "File Explorer" program in the Pocket PC OS does not provide for viewing
the extension of a file, let alone, changing that extension.
Ivie has included the renaming of the file extension function within the STI-PA program. The
file name can be changed to whatever the user desires, and have the ".sti" extension changed to
".txt". This "Save As" function does NOT affect the ".sti" file. The original file remains intact
and unchanged. Any additional measurements added to the "sti" after the "Save As" has
occurred will not appear in the "Save As" file. A new "Save As" will need to be performed to
update the "Save As" file
--SAVE AS CSV--
The existing ".sti" can be saved as a ,comma delimited, ".csv" file. This allows easy importation
of the STI-PA data into any spreadsheet or database program.