On Wednesday 17 March 2004 06:41 am, mauro@rulp.org wrote:
First of all, I would like to express my congratulations to the authors and thanks them all for their work.
Thanks for the kind words.
1. When Artemis starts, I receive this message:
Use of uninitialized value in join or string at /usr/local/bin/artemis line 1236
You can safely ignore this. This error happens as artemis tries to initialize the string that gets put in the "Prepared by" slot of the project properties. I will be more careful about how I initialize that string in the next release, but I am confident that nothing bad is happening.
2. Sometimes I save a project and when I reopen it doesn't found the datafiles (obviously I didn't modify the file names).
I have never seen this happen. (I mostly work on one SuSE linux system or another -- all the other stats are the same as what you quoted.) You should send me an example. Or, even, better, send me a detailed recipe for reproducing the problem on my computer. When this happens, is anything written to the screen? Does Artemis beep and tell you to look at the ARTEMIS.TRAP file? If either is the case, I will need to see what they say.
3. Sometimes the fit have no-sense values so I have to save the project, rerun Artemis, and with the same parameters I obtain good fit. It seems like after a certain number of fits the software starts to fail.
This one I *have* seen. My current hypothesis is that I am using ifeffit's erase() command in a way that is flakey. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to come up with a simple enough demonstration of the problem to merit complaining to Matt about it. Indeed, I am not sure that erase() is really the problem. In any case, I changed how erase() is used in a few places in the version I am currently working on and haven't seen this problem recently. So, there is hope ;-) In the meantime, I don't have better advice than to save and restart. Thanks for the bug report -- hearing about these problems is the only way I can make the software better. And welcome to the ifeffit family! B -- Bruce Ravel ----------------------------------- ravel@phys.washington.edu Code 6134, Building 3, Room 222 Naval Research Laboratory phone: (1) 202 767 5947 Washington DC 20375, USA fax: (1) 202 767 1697 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/