Loads an ASF file into a skeleton structure.

        :param file_name: The file name to load in.

def load_skel(self, file_name):

        """
        Loads an ASF file into a skeleton structure.

        :param file_name: The file name to load in.

         """         

        fid = open(file_name, 'r')
        self.read_skel(fid)
        fid.close()
        self.name = file_name