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%27spluginregistry

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:

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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