RE: a few words about pdCIF

1999-11-09 Thread Yokochi, Alexandre
Howdy everyone, Concerning the data storage formats, Brian Toby wrote that (some time ago) am not sure that I would use CIF as my internal format, if I were to create a database, since it is not designed for searching, but I would certainly want the ability to bot

Re: a few words about pdCIF

1999-11-08 Thread Brian H. Toby
Lubomir Smrcok wrote: > It would be nice if you make public the subroutines you have > mentioned in your mail. Sorry, no intent to be obscure, just brief. See http://www.iucr.org/iucr-top/cif/index.html (in the Americas, http://www.us.iucr.org/iucr-top/cif/index.html) and look for CIFtbx2 (and C

Re: a few words about pdCIF

1999-11-07 Thread Lubomir Smrcok
Brian, there is no reason to call your work "a thankless task". We all (I mean powder diffractionist) owe you a lot for your effort to make our life easier. It would be nice if you make public the subroutines you have mentioned in your mail. THough I agree with you that for many of us it is easier

a few words about pdCIF

1999-11-07 Thread Brian H. Toby
Hello everyone, I came in this morning to find quite a bit of discussion concerning CIF in my inbox, particularly since many of you chose to cc me as well as post to the discussion list. I am the principle (unprincipled?) author of the powder diffraction-specific part of CIF, known as pdCIF and