Dear Jon,
The Windows version of GSAS shares the rounding behavior of the Linux
version and is different from the old DOS version. All of GSAS is single
precision so silicon fetishes are limited to about 6 places.
Bob
At 04:54 PM 3/29/01 +0200, you wrote:
>Bob,
>
>Ask and it shall appear! I'm very impressed by your speedy creation of the
>new GSAS windows version. I've not found any of these zero length files
>yet, so maybe that's platform specific? No file named expedt has turned up
>anywhere on my hard disks. Thinking back I remember there used to be a bug
>in the runtime library of g77 under windows which crashed gdb when you
>opened a scratch file. It's unlikely, but this might have been part of a
>work around for that bug. I can't remember if that was platform specific
>however.
>
>One very minor issue which I was confused by: If I give a lattice parameter
>as 5.43094 it gets read in as 5.430941 (with an extra 1). If I specify the
>same with a few extra zeros, 5.43094000, then it gets read in correctly.
>This seems a little bizarre, but it's probably only important for people
>who share my silicon fetish :)
>
>Best wishes,
>
>Jon
>
