Hi folks, New versions of Athena and Artemis are now ready. The windows and unix updater programs will now grab and install these updates. This release addresses many bugs that were found in the previous release. There are also a couple of nice things for the Windows users. I recently upgraded by license for the PerlApp program, which is the program which builds the Windows executables from the perl source code. The new version of PerlApp has the very nice feature of generating *much* smaller executables -- Athena is about 2 megs as compared to about 5 megs from the previous version of PerlApp. There are two big new features in this release. 1. Athena now has an interface for doing linear combination fits of standard XANES spectra to an unknown. Look in the Analysis menu. 2. Both Athena and Artemis have a new mechanism for trapping certain kinds of errors and writing files that can be included in a bug report. If a certain class of problem gets tripped while you are using one of the codes, the program will beep and you will see a message like this in the echo area: Artemis trapped a warning! Message dumped to C:\Program Files\Ifeffit\horae\ARTEMIS.TRAP If you decide to send me a bug report regarding whatever lead to the error, you should include the specified file along with your bug report. The trap file may look cryptic, but it will probably help me a lot in solving the problem. Update and enjoy! B P.S. Big thanks this time for excellent bug reports from Peter Southon, Peter Pfalzer, and valient beta tester Adam Webb. Thanks also to Simon Bare for his help with the linear combination interface. -- Bruce Ravel ----------------------------------- ravel@phys.washington.edu Code 6134, Building 3, Room 405 Naval Research Laboratory phone: (1) 202 767 2268 Washington DC 20375, USA fax: (1) 202 767 4642 NRL Synchrotron Radiation Consortium (NRL-SRC) Beamlines X11a, X11b, X23b National Synchrotron Light Source Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973 My homepage: http://feff.phys.washington.edu/~ravel EXAFS software: http://feff.phys.washington.edu/~ravel/software/exafs/