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When dealing with long alog file names, remember that tab auto-completes. Once you start typing a name press tab and the command prompt will automatically try to fill in the rest. Depending on the settings and size of the input file alogParse can take a while to run. A pure back-search (-backsearch) is usually much faster than a partial backsearch back-search (-backsearch=X) or full-search.
AlogParse will output a txt file with the same name as the input. This can be imported into Excel or Matlab using their import data functions.