Here is how I converted my SSRL-collected data so as to be able to import them into Athena. (By the way, when you collect the data you can specify that you want them in ASCII, but I did not know that at the time.) 1. Install EXAFSPAK, the SSRL-grown Exafs data analysis suite. 2. Run the MVIEW command on each file with instructions to save the output in ASCII. Although the command is interactive, you can run it in quasi-batch mode -- you just have to quit from each window as pops up. This way you can cycle through 100 files or more in a couple of minutes. For example, on Linux, I ran the following shell script for files collected in transmission mode. The key command is mview /num=1-6 /den=1 /write=output-file input-file ********************** #!/bin/sh cd Raw # directory where the SSRL binary files reside for i in `cat list-of-files-to-be-converted` do mview /num=1-6 /den=1 /write=../ASCII/$i $i done # this prints 7 columns (the first being a repeat of energy) # In Athena, select num=5,den=6 for sample, num=6,den=7 for reference ********************** Hope this helps! Silvio Levy