Re: [Ifeffit] Unable to import data from HXMA beamline at CLS into Athena

Thanks so much for your quick reply Bruce. It's working perfectly now. Anthony On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Bruce Ravel wrote:

Athena clearly needs FAQ. This is a question that gets answered over and over on this list.

HXMA is one of those beamlines that sends it users home with files in a format sufficiently unusual that Athena needs help to figure out what goodies are locked away under a facade of obfuscation.

You need to enable the HXMA plugin on the plugin registry page:

http://bruceravel.github.io/**demeter/aug/other/plugin.html#** athena%27spluginregistryhttp://bruceravel.github.io/demeter/aug/other/plugin.html#athena%27spluginre...

One of the options is "HXMA". Click that button on. I had no trouble reading the file you sent once I clicked the HXMA plugin on.

Perhaps this is just sour grapes on my part, but wouldn't demanding non-obfuscated data files from the beamline be a better long-term solution than complaining about software that can't read whatever wonky crap the beamline sends you home with?

B

On 06/26/2013 12:54 PM, Anthony Ardizzi wrote:

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Hello,

I am currently at the HXMA beamline at the CLS facility in Saskatoon, Canada. I have attempted to import some of the data we have taken here into Athena (demeter version 0.9.17), however I continue to receive the following error: "C:\...\xxxxx.dat could not be read as data". I suspect that this might be a problem with the latest demeter release, as an associate of mine seems to have no problem importing these data files into Athena 0.8.056. I have attached a .dat file so that you can verify that the formatting is readable by Athena. Hopefully someone can provide some help. I would prefer not to have to go back to an older version of Athena if possible.

Also, I am running Windows 7 64-bit, in case that is relevant

Thanks in advance, Anthony

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