[Ifeffit] Opening SSRL data in Athena

[Carlo Segre]

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Carlo

On Fri, 8 Jul 2011, Wayne W Lukens Jr wrote:

> 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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