"Profile flags" indicate the editing status of a given bin or profile. They are bits associated with different kinds of flagging:
| binary | decimal | range | Percent Good | bin |
| 000 | 0 | |||
| 001 | 1 | bad | ||
| 010 | 2 | bad | ||
| 011 | 3 | bad | bad | |
| 100 | 4 | bad | ||
| 101 | 5 | bad | bad | |
| 110 | 6 | bad | bad | |
| 111 | 7 | bad | bad | bad |
An explanation of the application of these flags to the codas database is give here.
An example follows in which editing flags were created and stored in badbin.asc, badprof.asc, and bottom.asc. They were then applied to the database and an ascii dump was made of the database. You can look at the files to see the effects of each subsequent editing step.
| command | ascii dump of database |
| badbin ../adcpdb/edemo badbin.asc | step1_edemo001.asc |
| dbupdate ../adcpdb/edemo badprf.asc | step2_edemo001.asc |
| dbupdate ../adcpdb/edemo bottom.asc | step3_edemo001.asc |
| set_lgb ../adcpdb/edemo | step4_edemo001.asc |
| setflags setflags.tmp | step5_edemo001.asc |