[Ifeffit] Opening SSRL data in Athena

[Wayne W Lukens Jr]

Excellent! I was not aware that Athena could now open the SSRL binary files
(I have been using EXAFSPAK for this).

Sincerely,

Wayne

On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 9:03 PM, Scott Calvin <dr.scott.calvin at gmail.com>wrote:

> Actually, Athena *can* open binary SSRL files--I just successfully opened
> one of Lia's files in Athena.
>
> Here's what I did:
>
> Under Settings, choose Plugin registry.
> Check the SSRLB box.
>
> From there, it opened fine.
>
> Does trying that work for you, Lia?
>
> I am using Athena 0.8.061 on a Mac running OS 10.5.8.
>
> --Scott Calvin
> Sarah Lawrence College
>
> On Jul 7, 2011, at 6:20 PM, Wayne W Lukens Jr wrote:
>
> Hi Lia,
>
> Those are binary files from SSRL, which athena cannot open. There are a few
> ways that you can deal these files.
>
> Easiest is to use Six-Pack to work up the data. I believe it will open SSRL
> binary files. Six-Pack is a GUI-driven suite of programs analogous to Athena
> and Artemis.
>
> Slightly less easy is to convert your binary data to ascii data, which can
> be done on the SSRL computer that you used to collect the data. At this
> point, you will have to ask the beamline scientist to do this for you. You
> can definitely open the ascii files in Six-Pack.
>
> Somewhat more difficult is to use EXAFSPAK to work up the data. These are a
> suite of programs for EXAFS data analysis that are not particularly easy to
> learn. They will open the binary files.
> EXAFSPAK is easy to use once you have learned the commands.
>
> Six-Pack:
>
> http://home.comcast.net/~sam_webb/sixpack.html
>
> EXAFSPAK:
>
> http://ssrl.slac.stanford.edu/exafspak.html
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Wayne
>
>
>
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-- 
Wayne Lukens
Staff Scientist
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
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