A "heredoc" is a way of pasting words onto the commandline
and having them end up in a file. Copy and paste everything
below the line (starting with "cat << EOF" and drop it into
a command-line terminal in the processing directory:
#----------------------------------
cat << EOF > q_py.cnt
## python processing
##### q_py.cnt is
--yearbase 2009 ## required, for decimal day conversion
## (year of first data)
--cruisename ps0918 ## always required; used for titles
--dbname aship ## database name; in adcpdb. eg. a0918
--datatype lta ## datafile type
--sonar os75bb ## instrument letters, frequency, [ping]
--ens_len 300 ## specify correct ensemble length
--datadir ../../../vmdas_data/ps0918 ##use this option to avoid
## copying or linking files
EOF
## ----------- don't copy this part! -----------
Now if you type
cat q_py.cnt
you should see the file.