Day 7- "IDL hates me...=("

Jake still isn't here, but I did make some progress on the 'readcol' procedure that was troubling me yesterday. However the data I am looking for is not neatly organized so I have been looking for it. I looked into the 'e8.out' files which contained 63 rows with flux, velocity, sigma, etc. which I think means it has all 3 slits included. So I wanted to try to make plots with only rows 1 -21, but I cannot figure that out using idl. Also the .out2 files have the gas dispersion data and the .out3 have the flux data, but they are not in neat columns and so readcol is useless. I also tried to make a program that utilizes 'readcol', but it is included in the 'idlstartup' package and is not a function included in IDL itself. Therefore it kept returning it as an unknown procedure. I will try again tomorrow...the struggle continues.