Hello Bruce. There are no special characters only letters, numbers, and underscores. To be sure, I tried by placing the athena projects in ~/temp with the same result. Actually, I played a little bit more, and the behaviour is really strange: - consider the home folder /home/denis (I'll write ~ in the following) and a subfolder ~/A - I place an old style athena project in ~: named athena.prj - start dathena - open ~/athena.prj in dathena. It works. - cp athena.prj A/athena.prj - open ~/A/athena.prj in dathena. It works. - rm ~/athena.prj - reopen ~/A/athena.prj in dathena. It says: "/home/denis/athena.prj is not readable" - cp ~/A/athena.prj ~/. - reopen ~/A/athena.prj in dathena. It works. - and finally, I replace ~/A/athena.prj by another athena project (different), i.e., cp ~/some_random_athena_project ~/A/athena.prj - reopen ~/A/athena.prj in dathena. No error message BUT the project it opens is the old one, not the new random one I replaced the original one with... An additional info: the result of this sequence is the same if I let dathena run between each step ((but close the projects CTRL+W) or if I close (CTRL+Q) dathena at every step. What do you think of my Xmas gift Bruce? :-) Cheers denis Le 18/12/2012 19:54, ifeffit-request@millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov a écrit :

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Hi Denis,

As always, thanks a million for your feedback. This kind of thing has a profoundly positive impact on the quality of the package. I am really grateful.

The gnuplot-x11 dependency is a good catch. Thanks.

Unsurprisingly, I have no problems opening files on my computers. So we need to figure out what is happening on yours that is not happening on mine. My first suspicion involves character sets.

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- if I copy athena.prj from /home/denis/pathtothefolder/ to /home/denis/ then it works. What is "pathtofolder"? Specifically does it contains any accented characters, ess-zets, eastern characters or anything else involving unicode?

B

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