Bruce and Matt, Thank you for your help. Things appear to be working now. I made the change to the config.sys file (which changed the message from 'Out of environment space' to 'Too many parameters'). I then went to look at the xxxx.bat files and saw that they weren't there. After hitting the make bats application to generate them and then clicking on the executable (from the C:/Program Files/Ifeffit/ folder) things seem to be OK. (I didn't need to make changes to the bat files I guess)... though I'm still perplexed that I still get the "Too many parameters" message if I click on the icon on the desktop, while if I actually click on the executable in the folder I have no problem. I'm very glad that it appears to be working now. Thanks, Kristine Bruce Ravel writes on Fri, 7 Feb 2003 09:53:25 -0500:

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On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Matt Newville said:

MN> I thought the 'Too many parameters - Files\Ifeffit Bad command or MN> file name' message was somehow related to that, but maybe not. MN> If not, it may be due to a mistake in the files C:\Program MN> Files\Ifeffit\xxxx.bat (xxx = athena, artemis, ifeffit, MN> sixpack,....) which all have this line: MN> @echo off SET IFEFFIT_DIR=C:\Program Files\Ifeffit

MN> Could the space in the file name be a problem for Windows98 but MN> not Win2000??? If so, maybe adding quotes will do it: MN> SET IFEFFIT_DIR='C:\Program Files\Ifeffit'

I just wanted to say that if the solution to your problem is, indeed, adding quotes to the .bat files, please let us know so we can do so in the next version of the installer package. Of course, if the solution is something else entirely, let us know that also ;-)

B

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