TABLE This task produces a GILDAS Table from a formatted listing. The ta- ble format is recommended if you intend to use your data more than a few (4) times, i.e. in virtually any case. Moreover, the table format can be processed by more programs than the list-directed one. You should set the number of columns exactly, and the number of lines to 0 to allow the program to compute the table size, or to the real number of lines in your formatted file. Never set the number of lines or the number of columns larger than really present or the program will crash. Task LIST does the reverse process.