the end of line seems to be return carriage even on unix files...
For sure, the problem was the text-formatting, I don't know why but with textedit I could not save as "ascii file", and the code of the text file seemed to be a unicode UTF8 . As I saved the same data as unix file with TEXTWRANGLER, Athena can open it. 
The unix file presents "return carriage" at the end of line.
 I did not try with text file from a windows station...There is still a tiny problem as the first numberof the first column is preceeded of weird characters (Ôªø3.44    ), with subsequent addition of a datapoint (0, 0) on the chi file, but it works. Artemis can open the same file but additional data points appeared which makes the data unexploitable on artemis.

Le 22 juin 06 à 10:52, Matthew a écrit :

So was it the localization or the end-of-line or what?
    mam
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Hello
Thanks to everyone for the helpful answers. I finally followed the
advice of Michel Jaouen and Matthew Newville, I downloaded
TEXTWRANGLER, opened the text files and saved them as unix files.
With this format, Artemis was able to read them and plot them.
thanks again
sincerely
emmanuelle

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