Hi all, Today, in a conversation that Carlo, Matt, and I have been having, Matt said the following:

I know some beamlines (PNC-CAT, for example) don't install Ifeffit/hephaestus on data collection machines because it uses too much memory (~40Mb+ on Win32).

In fact, the only thing for which hephaestus uses Ifeffit is the f'/f" utility. None of the other tools in hephaestus make use of ifeffit in any way. Would there be some interest in a "hephaestus-lite"? That is, a version of hephaestus that does not include the f'/f" utility. Such a thing would have a much smaller footprint on the computer -- just whatever the perl interpreter requires, maybe 4 or 5 meg. If enough people express inetrest, I can inlcude thas in the distribution. I can even make a stand-alone distribution that installs only hephaestus-lite and the external files it needs to do its thing. That would be a much smaller beast (both in disk space and memory footprints) than the full ifeffit install. B -- Bruce Ravel ---------------------------------------------- bravel@anl.gov Molecular Environmental Science Group, Building 203, Room E-165 MRCAT, Sector 10, Advance Photon Source, Building 433, Room B007 Argonne National Laboratory phone and voice mail: (1) 630 252 5033 Argonne IL 60439, USA fax: (1) 630 252 9793 My homepage: http://cars9.uchicago.edu/~ravel EXAFS software: http://cars9.uchicago.edu/~ravel/software/exafs/