Ciao Brad, for the NT machine it looks like enhancing the pagefile (rightclick on "my computer", settings, advanced, I think - or look in the windows help under "increase pagefile") does the trick. I had such messages before on NT machines. Increasing the virtual memory always helps... Cheers, Norbert On Tuesday 25 November 2003 21:47, Bruce Ravel wrote:

Brad,

I am passing this along to the mailing list to see if anyone else has any better wisdom for you. But I'll take a stab.

Win98: did you put "SHELL=C:\COMMAND.COM /E:4096 /P" into `config.sys', as the Win98 instructions on my and Matt's web sites suggest? Otherwise I am not familiar enough with Win98 to provide better guidance.

WinNT: I have never seen the message you described and don't quite know what it means. What happens on NT if you install the stuff in to C:\Program Files\ rather than onto the F: disk? Again, I am not very familiar with NT (I've never actually haad it on a machine that I own.)

Win2K: Whew! Using this seems like the path of least resistance.

Anyone else have any wisdom?

B

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Subject: athena - Win 98 and Win NT Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 14:32:31 -0600 (CST) From: Brad Lindseth To: ravel@phys.washington.edu

Hi, We took some XAFS data a week ago at the APS. I installed athena to look at the data. Here is my report:

1. installed on Win 98: athena runs, but says "Error: Runtime exception" in the DOS window. And then a Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime library box says: Runtime Error! Program c:\ifeffit\grwnd.exe abnormal program termination.

2. installed on WinNT 4.0: in the DOS window it says: F:\PROGRA~1\Ifeffit>athena Can't load 'C:\TEMP\athena\{62B3D752-A76A-4C15-B621-8205B2665DBC}\/auto/Ifeffit/ Ifeffit.dll' for module Ifeffit: load_file:The paging file is too small for this operation to complete at DynaLoader.pm line 206. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at athena line 59.

3. windows 2000 installation works just fine.

Should I just use the win 2000 installation, or is there a simple fix for the other two? Thanks, Brad Lindseth

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