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I know this is not the XPLOR newsgroup, but I also know that most of you
are crystallographers and are familiar with XPLOR, so I thought I'd
simply ask here without joining yet another listserve.  Sorry if this
bothers anybody.

Anyway, you may all remember that you helped me considerably a few weeks
back, when deciding to throw away my old SGI's and get a Linux system. 
I did just that (though I didn't throw them out yet), and have an AMD64
system up and running with Fedora Core 5 (I had it around, I may try
something else later but it was convenient).

I tried to download/install xplor several times with no luck.  I simply
could not get xplor or cns to install and work (cns would compile but it
didn't work, meaning compiler errors).  I followed the cns web site info
and reinstalled libraries as it stated but apparently I am still doing
something wrong.

So, I did a google search and found a version of xplor that is
pre-compiled and works fine (xplor-NIH).  I downloaded this and it's
working fine (so what's the question).

The question is this:  I took old data that had been through xplor
before.  using the exact same input scripts, topology files, etc..., I
ran them again with the "new" xplor.  It is very fast, but the striking
thing is that my R-factors are 5-10% lower (both R and R-free) than they
were on the other machine.  The number of reflections is identical, and
everything seems to be the same, but the R-factors.

What does this mean???  How can I validate this to ensure that this new
xplor (or my old one for that matter) is giving me numbers I can
trust???

Thanks

Dave Roberts
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