A high-level routine for performing numerical fits to data sets (mostly X,Y data). This script is really a wrapper that handles error checking and user queries before calling things like the clcf_ routine (clcf - Command Line Curve Fitter).

 
% curve_fit --help

Usage: curve_fit poly3 X.dat Y.dat 30 
arg1 - curve type (see gen_curve.sh) 
arg2 - name of X file  
arg3 - name of Y file  
arg4 - number of output curve points to generate