Hi folks, I just uploaded a new source code tarball of Athena, Artemis, and Hephaestus to SourceForge. This release includes several bug fixes from the last couple of months and a few new features. An updater for the Windows users should follow soon. Here are the release notes on SF: http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=264418 The highlights: 1. The first tarball with a version of the development branch. I'll discuss this more in another message to the mailing list later this afternoon. 2. You can now use CIF files for your crystallography data. I added funtionality to one of the libraries associated with Atoms to handle CIF files. This means than any program built off of those libraries automatically reads CIF files. The one caveat is that atoms and tkatoms will only read the first record in a multi-record CIF file. Extracting a later record requires some additional code at the level of the application rather than the library. Artemis will pop up a dialog for selecting from a multi-record CIF file. TkAtoms will not. You should consider the CIF functionality experimental. There are some tricky parts and I am not sure that my implementation will work in all situation. Please contact me in person or via the list if you have any trouble with CIF files. 3. A new look, a new utility, and several bug fixes in Hephaestus. 4. The horae_update script was updated to loop through the SF servers until it finds one that responds with the tarball. Special thanks this time to Dave Barton, my CIF implementation borrowed heavily from his handy cif2inp tool. Dave also made a number of good sugestions regarding Athena and Hephaestus. Also thanks to Tony Lanzirotti and Sean Luo, both of whom reported significant bugs that got fixed. B -- 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/