Hi Folks, Thanks to Brian Toby (see his note below) the various UNIX versions of GSAS and EXPGUI have been prepared. I have placed copies of all of them in the GSAS CCP14 web site. As he notes, please let me know of bugs in GSAS. He will deal with the EXPGUI ones. Thanks, Bob Von Dreele
________________________________ From: Brian H. Toby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thu 9/30/2004 3:38 PM To: EXPGUI Mailing List Friends, The GSAS+EXPGUI releases for all supported platforms have been updated to include the latest version of GSAS as well as a slightly improved version of EXPGUI. What is particularly new is that installation for Macintosh, SGI and Linux has gotten much easier and the web pages on installation for all platforms have been given a major overhaul (see individual pages for Windows <http://www.ncnr.nist.gov/xtal/software/expgui/expgui_Win_readme.html>, Linux/SGI <http://www.ncnr.nist.gov/xtal/software/expgui/expgui_Unix_readme.html>, or Mac OS X <http://www.ncnr.nist.gov/xtal/software/expgui/osx.html>.) I may not put out a new release in this format for quite a while, so these web pages describe how to update either GSAS or EXPGUI alone, if updates are available. What is new in GSAS can be found in gsasnews.txt <http://www.ccp14.ac.uk/ccp/ccp14/ftp-mirror/gsas/public/gsas/gsasnews.txt> (this includes a new revision to the GSAS manual). Note that this is all from Bob Von Dreele -- not me. Contact Bob for compliments, bugs & questions for GSAS. What is new in EXPGUI can be found in the EXPGUI Recent & Planned Improvements <http://www.ncnr.nist.gov/xtal/software/expgui/wishlist.html> web page. A number of the changes are "under the hood" and should not be noticed if I did everything right (this version includes a new Tcl/Tk program that seems to fix a problem where EXPGUI sometimes got hung up in Windows-XP, but unlike the test version for -XP, the same version can now be used on all windows versions). There are two new coordinate export routines: one that prepares a control file for the very nice DRAWXTL <http://www.nist.gov/cgi-bin/exit_nist.cgi?url=%0Ahttp://www.lwfinger.net/drawxtl/> structure plotting program and one for quick-and-dirty CIFs, again suitable for structure plotting, but not much more (a previous EXPGUI version added coordinate export for viewing in FOX). I have also tracked down a bug that allowed non-ASCII characters into .EXP files (most commonly for people with non-English computer keyboards) -- which then caused big problems in GSAS -- thanks in large part to Günter Krauss. Also, depending on when you last updated, you may notice that (obs-calc)/sigma (much more important to see than obs-calc) can now be plotted in LIVEPLOT. Brian ******************************************************************** Brian H. Toby, Ph.D. Leader, Crystallography Team [EMAIL PROTECTED] NIST Center for Neutron Research, Stop 8563 voice: 301-975-4297 National Institute of Standards & Technology FAX: 301-921-9847 Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8563 http://www.ncnr.nist.gov/xtal ********************************************************************
