On Friday 12 January 2007 15:20, Aaron Slowey wrote:
I'm running IFEFFIT, Athena, etc. on my Intel Mac after using the the recent installer provided by MRCAT. I've opened Athena successfully and was able to load a GSECARS data file, but I am unable to load SSRL binary data files (original file from a VMS beamline computer).
Would it help to convert the SSRL binaries to ASCII files? If so, how can I do that?
Aaron, There are enough people in the Ifeffit-using community who are SSRL users and who might be interested in this question. SO I am CCing my answer to the mailing list. Question 3 at this FAQ page: http://cars9.uchicago.edu/iffwiki/FAQ/HoraeQuestions explains in some detail what kind of data Athena is able to read. Obviously SSRL's binary format cannot be imported without the use of a plugin. It would be possible, in principle, to write a plugin that is capable of reading the SSRL binary format. However, to my knowledge (which certainly may be faulty) the technical details of the SSRL format are not published any place where I can find them. That's something of an impediment. ;-) It would most certainly help to convert to an ascii format. Not having worked at SSRL since my grad school days, I don't really know how to do so. Your beamline scientist should be able to help you with that. Perhaps someone on the list will know the details. B -- Bruce Ravel ---------------------------------------------- bravel@anl.gov Molecular Environmental Science Group, Building 203, Room E-165 MRCAT, Sector 10, Advance 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/