Howdy folks, I got an interesting bug report a few days ago which I could only partly address. A fellow asked me:

I have installed the IFEFFIT package in my computer (WIN ME). The installation software seems to work ok. However, when I try to run the *.bat files, I have the following message, repeated twice: "out of environment space". Despite these messages athena, gifeffit and ifeffit are runnig ok. However, tkatoms.bat and apt.bat don't run at all.

I understand that the "out of environment space" problem results from the rather awkward way the old Windows operating systems handled "conventional" memory and the amount of memory dedicated to holding the values of environment variables. It seems reasonable that this message turns up when our .bat files are run since they add to the environment. I suppose that an environment that is already nearly full could be tipped by our .bat files. See, for example, http://www.pcguide.com/ts/x/sys/operrEnvironmentSpace-c.html The second part of the question stumps me. Why do three of the codes work, but tkatoms and the periodic table not run? The tkatoms executable is, in fact, larger than athena, but the periodic table is smaller. And the periodic table does not use Ifeffit, which should make its memory demands even smaller. So does anyone have any wisdom for Windows ME? ("Upgrade" and other snippy comments are not helpful! ;-) Has anyone been able to use these codes on 98 or ME? B -- Bruce Ravel ----------------------------------- ravel@phys.washington.edu U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Code 6134 phone: (1) 202 767 5947 Washington DC 20375, USA fax: (1) 202 767 1697 NRL Synchrotron Radiation Consortium (NRL-SRC) Beamlines X11a, X11b, X23b, X24c, U4b 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/