On Tuesday 01 June 2004 03:26 pm, sluo@slc.edu wrote: sl> Mr. Ravel, OK, rule #1 for the Ifeffit mailing list. Address Bruce as "Bruce". Mr. Ravel is Bruce's dad. ;-) sl> The most glaring of oddities I've noticed is that c:\\program sl> files\ifeffit doesn't exist, so there is no place for the trapped sl> Artemis files to go (I do have a couple of them copied, but I'll This confuses me because that location is set using the value of the IFEFFIT_DIR variable in the batch file that launches artemis. That should have been set at install time. I am not sure why that is not working correctly, but one work-around might be to create that folder just to catch the trap files. Another good idea might be at least to upgrade to a later MS operating system. sl> send another email about that later). Another is that the command sl> lines that open with the associated programs don't close when the sl> program closes. They'll say "finished" on the top, but the window sl> will stay open. I have never seen that behavior before. Has anyone else? Perhaps its a windows ME thing....? sl> And in Athena, and there's unfortunately no real consistency in sl> characterizing this error, but it'll say: sl> sl> Athena has caused an error in KERNEL32.dll. sl> Athena will now close sl> If you continue to experience problems, sl> try restarting your computer. I truly have no idea what that means. Did you follow all the instructions here? http://cars9.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/ifeffit/faqwiz?req=show&file=faq02.007.htp sl> Another Artemis error comes up when trying to generate the FEFF sl> paths. Everything will run properly, the message screen will show sl> all the paths, but no pop-up will prompt to ask how many paths to sl> import. There's a trap file associated with this, but I'll have to sl> send it later. Also, when this error happens, the feff.inp page sl> will say "no feff.inp file selected." If we re-run atoms to sl> generate the feff.inp again, then click "run feff," there'll be sl> another error trapped, and again, no prompt to import paths, the sl> message box doesn't even show up this time to show the program sl> going through the paths. Again, I have trapped warnings to gowith sl> these, but unfortunately (and I apologize), they're on the other sl> student's computer and he's not on the mailing list, so I'll get sl> them to you as soon as I can. I am going to need more information. Are you sure the dialog for selecting the number of paths isn't hidden for some reason under the main window? I guess my big question is whether any of this behavior is reproduced on windows machines that are not windows ME. I am not too excited about working hard to make sure that WinME support is perfect. WinME was a pretty crappy operating system. 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/