[Ifeffit] Atoms error message

[Matt Newville]

Hi Bruce, Øystein,


> > M:\>atoms
> > can't open \share\perl\Xray\space_groups.db: No such file or directory
> > at /PerlA
> > pp/Xray/Xtal.pm line 116
> > BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at atoms line 44.
> >
> > which is weird, since there is a directory

> It's not so weird.  The icons and Start menu entries that Ifeffit
> installs do not point directly at the executables.  Rather they point
> at BAT files that set some environment variables, then run the
> executables.

Actually, the icons don't run batch files, but the environment is set
similarly in the runner.exe program.  To run the programs from a
command line, you can type:
  C:\>  "C:\Program Files\Ifeffit\bin\runner" atoms

which works (but apparently not on Vista!).  It *ought* to work to do this:
  C:\> "C:\Program Files\Ifeffit\bin\use_ifeffit.bat"
  C:\> atoms

but currently does not -- giving the error Oystein reported, or
something similar indicating that the perl executables are looking for
"share\perl\..." under the "current working directory".    That's
probably fixable.

>
> > PS: it seems the WebAtoms page is malfunctioning, I get a "HTTP 500
> > Internal server error".
>
> Yup.  That was discssed on the Ifeffit mailing list starting here:

The discussion from last month was (and is) a different problem, in
which some data was causing APS/ANL firewalls to block the traffic.

What Oystein  noticed is that atoms.cgi was not running on millenia,
which was true (probably since last Thursday), and was completely my
fault.  Sorry for that, but it is working now.

--Matt

PS: others may have noticed a lack of connectivity to the Ifeffit web
pages and mailing lists (and xafs.org) over the past couple days.
These were also due to APS firewall "issues", but it seems to be
better now.