Re: [Ifeffit] Demeter-devel MacPorts Athena issues work-around

2014-07-07 Thread Margaret Hinkle
Bruce, I understand that it is frustrating to try to help someone when you are given only part of the information needed to fully solve a problem. I'm sure it is an issue you deal with on a relatively regular basis. I do want to particularly thank you, though, for quickly fixing both of my

Re: [Ifeffit] Demeter-devel MacPorts Athena issues work-around

2014-07-06 Thread Matt Newville
Hi, On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 2:06 PM, Bruce Ravel bra...@bnl.gov wrote: On 07/04/2014 12:11 PM, Margaret Hinkle wrote: Thanks for your help your quick reply. I did not expect my altering one character in the code to fix the problem -- I had just hoped it would tell me if the Tip of the Day

Re: [Ifeffit] Demeter-devel MacPorts Athena issues work-around

2014-07-06 Thread Kevin Jorissen
It's kinda what I do on this mailing list. And I think I'm unsubscribing for that reason (although, like many others undoubtedly, I am probably professionally condemned to return eventually). In ten years of helping countless users as an expert on WIEN2k resp. FEFF, and encountering all the

Re: [Ifeffit] Demeter-devel MacPorts Athena issues work-around

2014-07-06 Thread Scott Calvin
Hi all, This is probably as good a time as any to mention a miscommunication I've seen come up a couple of times on the list that may have caused unnecessary friction. It's a good time because it =isn't= what transpired in the current thread (which ended happily for all involved), so it

Re: [Ifeffit] Demeter-devel MacPorts Athena issues work-around

2014-07-06 Thread Matt Newville
On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 5:24 PM, Bruce Ravel bra...@bnl.gov wrote: Matt, You're right. I was too grouchy. Margaret Anne, I apologize if I was too mean-spirited in my emails over the weekend. On 07/06/2014 05:54 PM, Matt Newville wrote: Wait, what? What text string is configured to

Re: [Ifeffit] Demeter-devel MacPorts Athena issues work-around

2014-07-05 Thread Bruce Ravel
On 07/04/2014 12:11 PM, Margaret Hinkle wrote: Thanks for your help your quick reply. I did not expect my altering one character in the code to fix the problem -- I had just hoped it would tell me if the Tip of the Day was indeed the culprit. I did as you suggested, and the problem is

Re: [Ifeffit] Demeter-devel MacPorts Athena issues work-around

2014-07-05 Thread Margaret Hinkle
Dear Bruce, Your fix worked beautifully -- thank you for your clear instructions! Athena I are both very happy. The data loads in perfectly. And I do apologize for my poor wording with my initial e-mail -- my statement about the MacPort version of Athena not being able to load in data files

Re: [Ifeffit] Demeter-devel MacPorts Athena issues work-around

2014-07-04 Thread Bruce Ravel
On 07/03/2014 06:54 PM, Margaret Hinkle wrote: Issue 1. With the new demeter-devel Macports download, Athena freezes upon opening. Opening up Athena via Terminal brought up perl5.16 -- I could see the GUI, the Tip of the Day, and the Athena startup box, but the system just froze. I had to force

[Ifeffit] Demeter-devel MacPorts Athena issues work-around

2014-07-03 Thread Margaret Hinkle
Dear OS X Users, First let me thank Frank Schima for fixing the issues with Artemis and ATOMS with his new demeter-devel Macports download -- I (and all Mac users) greatly appreciate it! I thought I would bring two issues with Macports Athena to your attention... FYI, I am using Mac OS X