Hi Paul,

The program icon for artemis and athena is a short applescript application (that in turn calls a unix script).  The source code is in the Ifeffit/applescript folder (the top level artemis is a compiled applescript applescript).  It goes like this:

display dialog "Please pick an output device" buttons {"X11 graphics", "Aquaterm"} default button "X11 graphics"
set mydevice to the button returned of the result
if mydevice contains "Aquaterm" then
        do shell script "/Applications/Ifeffit/bin/runprog -q -m -x -a artemis"
else
        do shell script "/Applications/Ifeffit/bin/runprog -q -x -a artemis"
end if

I checked. In my case the Artemis.scpt file looks like this (and indeed the strange symbols are present in all the scripts in the directory, so maybe it is OK):
I am worried about the red symbols: is the file corrupted? And if so, why is it? I just installed the package I downloaded, nothing else.

As you can see depending on the answer received the script /Applications/Ifeffit/bin/runprog is invoked (with different options).  The shell script runprog is a bourne shell script (written by Matt and hacked by me).  The -m option just sets the environment variable PGPLOT_DEV to the value /AQT before ifeffit is invoked.  The option list is:

    -a)  app=$2 ; shift    ;;
    -x)  $open_x           ;;
    -q)  show_out=0        ;;
    -d)  show_dir=1        ;;
    -m)  device='/AQT'     ;;
     *)  files="$files $1" ;;


It should be possible to invoke artemis with an aquaterm graphics output by using the line "/Applications/Ifeffit/bin/runprog -q -m -x -a artemis" (without the quotes) in an X11 window.  Does this command work?

It does. And if I launch the program in this way, feff6 is invoked and runs without the error message, the same way as when I launch Artemis with the artemis command from the iTerm window, but differently from when I lauch the program double clicking the Artemis icon.

Not that I am stuck at this poin (I can run my fits using artemis launched from the Xwindow) but I wonder whether this little bug can be sorted out.
Stefano
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