Hi folks, Following Tsu-Chien's and Matt's suggestions, I threw together an "HORAE_install" script. I cribbed this together by hacking at Matt's PGPLOT_install script for about an hour this afternoon. I offer this for the unix people on this list to play around with. It seems to work for me on my linux machine, but I make no promises that it will work for anyone else. It uses wget to fetch the horae tarball, then unpacks and builds the goods. If you are root, it also installs athena and artemis. Otherwise, you need to become root and do the "make install" step by hand. Because the horae tarball is on a web site and not an ftp site, the HORAE_install script does not have the option of falling back on ncftp and ftp (as does PGPLOT_install) if wget is not installed on your system. No wget, and it won't work. In principle, I could use lynx or even mozilla as a fallback, but as I said I only spent an hour hacking at this. I may or may not work anymore on this script, so I would be thrilled if someone else wanted to maintain it. If so, contact me. I'll see to it that this script continues to work as I make new releases of the horae tarball. (That is, I'll update the symlink and the small file that the installation script looks for on my website.) Here's the URL: http://leonardo.phys.washington.edu/~ravel/software/exafs/packages/HORAE_ins... 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, X24c, U4b 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/