Bruce asked, "Does my answer yesterday to Øystein's question affect whether you need to move the shar folder? " The short answer is No. In fact, I don't understand how your answer would fix Øystein's problem (see the long answer below). Though I freely admit that I have no idea at all about the intracacies of Bruce and Matt's excellent code. The long answer: Knowing that there were environment variables that needed to be set, I always ran use_ifeffit.bat as the first step. That Bat file contains all of the commands you said to use in yesterday's post. Regardless, your advice in that post doesn't work for me. I can tell that the BAT file sets the environmental variables correctly. For example, on my work computer Iffeffit does not dwell in C:\Program Files, it dwells in Applications. After using the correct Batch file, The error message that I get trying to start athena from the command line is now C:\APPLIC~1\Ifeffit\bin>athena can't open C:\Applications\Ifeffit\bin\share\perl\Xray\space_groups.db: No such file or directory at /PerlApp/Xray/Xtal.pm line 116 BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /PerlApp/Ifeffit/Files.pm line 50. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at athena line 96. Note that the Directory C:\Program Files\... is now correctly C:\Applicaitons\... Therefore, it seems to me that there is an extra directory in the path for that file, and that setting the environment variables can't make it go away. If it read, "C:\Applications\Ifeffit\share\...." instead of "C:\Applications\Ifeffit\bin\share..." everything would be OK. The impact of the environment variables occurs earlier in the file path. Mark ------------------------------ Mark P. Jensen Chemistry Division Argonne National Laboratory 9700 South Cass Avenue Argonne, Illinois 60439-4831 USA 630-252-3670 630-252-7501 FAX mjensen@anl.gov -----Original Message----- From: ifeffit-bounces@millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov [mailto:ifeffit-bounces@millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov] On Behalf Of Ravel, Bruce D. Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 10:23 AM To: XAFS Analysis using Ifeffit Subject: Re: [Ifeffit] Ifeffit on Windows Vista On Thursday 08 March 2007 09:40, Jensen, Mark P. wrote:
At that point, if I simply typed in the command for a Ravelware executable, I get another error indicating that the application can't find the file
C:\Program Files\Ifeffit\bin\share\perl\Xray\space_groups.db.
If I now copy the whole share directory into the bin directory, the program can find what it needs and starts normally.
Mark, Wow! Great work. I'm going to make a FAQ entry that points to your post. Does my answer yesterday to Øystein's question affect whether you need to move the shar folder? http://cars9.uchicago.edu/pipermail/ifeffit/2007-March/002919.html B -- Bruce Ravel ---------------------------------------------- bravel@anl.gov Molecular Environmental Science Group, Building 203, Room E-165 MRCAT, Sector 10, Advanced Photon Source, Building 433, Room B007 Argonne National Laboratory phone and voice mail: (1) 630 252 5033 Argonne IL 60439, USA fax: (1) 630 252 9793 My homepage: http://cars9.uchicago.edu/~ravel EXAFS software: http://cars9.uchicago.edu/~ravel/software/exafs/ _______________________________________________ Ifeffit mailing list Ifeffit@millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov http://millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov/mailman/listinfo/ifeffit