Hi Folks, Since it has been almost a month since my last release of software and since I expect to be busy for the next couple of week, I decided to release all the stuff I worked on over the holidays. There are no changes to Artemis this time, but lots of changes to Athena. A new tarball and a new Windows executable for Athena are on my website. Lots of bug fixes this time, so I recommend that everyone upgrade. Check out the change log on my web page for all the new stuff. The highlights are 1. Fixed the problem involving long file names. Now the group name used by Ifeffit is constrained to 8 characters and is different from the string displayed in the groups list. This solves a number of recent complaints about mysterious misbehavior. It has the additional benefit of allowing you to change the string displayed in the group list to something that has spaces or non-alphanumeric characters. 2. Implemented a "recent files" feature under the File menu. This remembers the 8 most recent files that you read into Athena and allows you to reread them quickly. It uses an external file, so it "remembers" between sessions with Athena. 3. Added a dialog accessible from the Plot menu which allows you to quickly and easily set the y-offset values for marked groups in a way that is suitable for stacked plots. There are several other bug fixes and small improvements. And the documentation lags ever farther behind -- sigh! Extra thanks this time around to Dale Brewe. He pointed out an alarming number of problems one December afternoon while I was working at his beamline. I think I fixed all of them. Regards, B P.S. I have not yet addressed the problem in Artemis which Michel Schlegel pointed out earlier this week. What's mpre, command line users will notice that Artemis spits up a cryptic warning about an "Un-named file" as it starts up. I believe that warning can be safely ignored. -- Bruce Ravel ----------------------------------- ravel@phys.washington.edu Code 6134, Building 3, Room 222 Naval Research Laboratory 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/