Hello Bruce, everybody you wrote:

Athena is not always particularly creative about the names it suggests for output files. For example, if you use the feature of saving several marked groups to a single output file, Athena suggests that the names be "marked.space". That is, if you save marked groups as chi(k), the suggested file name is "marked.chi". If you save marked groups as the real part of chi(R), the suggested file name is "marked.chir_re".

It is possible to configure Explorer such that it does not display file extensions (i.e. the bit after the dot). That might make it hard to tell different marked group output files apart if the suggested names are used.

Is this a problem for anyone? Should I change the suggested names such that the suggestive part is not in the extension? That is, would "chi.marked" and "chir_re.marked" be better names?

Actually, as a Window user (booo! hisss!), my first move is to have all the extensions appearing in Explorer, a basic security move (e.g., to avoid clicking on a "picture.gif" that actually corresponds to a "picture.gif.exe", with all undesirable consequences). I also find it much easier to keep the pre-dot part of the data file for the sample name, and the post-dot part for the data type (and I'm eternally grateful to Ifeffit to provide us miscellaneous and yet distinct extensions; no joke). Therefore, I suggest NOT to change the current feature. Best regards, Michel Schlegel