new Windows GSAS: PROBLEMS

[Alexandros Lappas]

Dear All,   Till recently I was using a 'no-name' Pentium II PC and Windows-98 to run routinely GSAS through the QBASIC interface. This was the GSAS version of 'June 2000'.   Now I thought I would be better off if I would upgrade my PC and also the version of the GSAS!   I downloaded then the 'June 2001' version of GSAS on my new HP Pentium III laptop running also Windows-98... and basically I can not find a way to make GSAS work!   I did follow the instructions given in the 'readme' file on how to install the new Windows GSAS.  However, I only managed to open the PC-GSAS interface by running the shortcut on the windows desktop. Anything else does not work! If I try to read an older gsas experiment file and then try to do 'Expedt', I never get that MS-DOS window that permits us to work on experiment modification. A similar thing happens if I try to do 'Rawplot' (in the Utilities), I never get any DOS or other Graphics (e.g. GrWnd) window so that I can see a plot of my data.   Is there some simple solution on these problems of mine or do you think they are related to some kind of 'restrictions' imposed by the HP-laptop hardware?   Thank you in advance.   A. Lappas   ----------------------------------------------------------   Dr. Alexandros Lappas   Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH)   Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser (IESL)   P.O. Box 1527   Vassilika Vouton   711 10 Heraklion, Crete   GREECE   Tel: +30 81 391344, Fax: +30 81 391305  ----------------------------------------------------------