Dear Dr. Armel and SDPD members. Still as to regards the e-mail about fees of SDPD Internet Course and some natural difficulties of students in poor countries,...
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Armel Le Bail
armel@...
Nov 3, 1999 11:28 pm
... This is really something to do. I am sure that Lachlan would be ready to store a data base of powder patterns. I would add to this database many patterns, ...
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John Faber
faber@...
Nov 4, 1999 5:56 pm
The ICDD maintains the PDF-2, that contains information on approximately 120,000 powder patterns. In addition, the ICDD is compiling a database of full...
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Armel Le Bail
armel@...
Nov 4, 1999 6:51 pm
... I would say that PDF-3 is not really compatible with some natural difficulties of students in poor countries. That is why I did not cite ICDD, but only ...
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L. Cranswick
L.M.D.Cranswick@...
Nov 5, 1999 2:12 am
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L. Cranswick
L.M.D.Cranswick@...
Nov 5, 1999 2:59 am
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Armel Le Bail
armel@...
Nov 5, 1999 8:10 am
... When I read the introduction to Powder CIF at : http://www.iucr.org/iucr-top/cif/pd/index.html ... of documenting ... be ... shared ... The ... ...
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Lubomir Smrcok
uachsmrk@...
Nov 5, 1999 8:16 am
That's great to assume everybody uses the same software as you do, Armel ... I think also CIF was developed to avoid thousands of formats. Why not to ...
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Armel Le Bail
alb@...
Nov 5, 1999 8:26 am
... Ooops ! Well, it looks like a CIF file ;-) But, Lubo, you mean that you have not updated your email software to be able to cope with HTML, automatically ? ...
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Armel Le Bail
armel@...
Nov 5, 1999 12:49 pm
Let us discuss on something concrete. I do not believe that a database of powder patterns needs necessarily to use all the definitions which are in the Powder...
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Robin Shirley
R.Shirley@...
Nov 5, 1999 4:17 pm
Armel Sending this in html rather than plain text makes it unreadable on my mail browser. Robin...
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Armel Le Bail
armel@...
Nov 5, 1999 4:50 pm
... Sorry for the inconvenience. You will be able to read the mail in the SDPD mailing list archive at : http://www.egroups.com/group/sdpd/161.html? Best Armel...
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L. Cranswick
L.M.D.Cranswick@...
Nov 5, 1999 5:56 pm
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Armel Le Bail
armel@...
Nov 5, 1999 9:50 pm
... The current format used in PowBase is diplayed also by Winplotr (INSTRM=0). ... I would add that the manufacturers too (Rigaku, Philips, Bruker, etc)...
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Peter Y. Zavalij
pzavalij@...
Nov 7, 1999 10:09 am
The example of the CIF file for Rietveld refinement proposed by I.D.Brown can be downloaded from: ftp://ftp.iucr.org/pub/rietxmpl.cif This site is very slow...
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Helio Salim de Amorim
hsalim@...
Nov 8, 1999 12:19 am
... Dear Dr. Armel and SDPD members. I think that PowBase is yet a remarkable step and your public domain character a very important aspect. I think also,...
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Armel Le Bail
alb@...
Nov 8, 1999 10:38 am
... Thanks a lot, it was your suggestion ! Powbase has already reached some cruising speed with 79 patterns added in 5 days. Theoretically, 190 days would...
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Robin Shirley
R.Shirley@...
Nov 8, 1999 3:24 pm
... I'm reluctant to take issue with Lachlan, who does such a good job at the CCP14 website, and indeed publishes CRYSFIRE from there. However, I have to say...
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Armel Le Bail
armel@...
Nov 8, 1999 3:47 pm
... I think that sounding opinions about doing or not a database, and asking to researchers if they are ready to share their data would have surprising results...
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L. Cranswick
L.M.D.Cranswick@...
Nov 8, 1999 4:02 pm
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John Faber
faber@...
Nov 8, 1999 7:17 pm
... Armel: The Facts: The Grant-in-Aid (GiA) Program at ICDD is currently supported at about $300,000 per year. The GiA program is not restricted to ICDD...
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Robin Shirley
R.Shirley@...
Nov 9, 1999 7:46 am
[Re-sending, as my mailer keeps reporting problems and I'm not sure whether this is getting through - my apologies if this leads to duplicate copies] ... If...
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Robin Shirley
R.Shirley@...
Nov 9, 1999 7:46 am
... If what we require is a single common file format that must serve many (only partly compatible) uses, this is probably true. I think much of the difficulty...
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L. Cranswick
L.M.D.Cranswick@...
Nov 10, 1999 2:38 am
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L. Cranswick
L.M.D.Cranswick@...
Nov 10, 1999 5:38 pm
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Armel Le Bail
armel@...
Nov 13, 1999 6:30 pm
Powder data at the IUCr Journals Web site are available as .rtv files (not CIF). Below are examples of deposited data. I have found a Babel Tower there too. ...
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Robin Shirley
R.Shirley@...
Nov 15, 1999 3:40 pm
I read with interest Armel's survey of the widely differing [yet apparently all CIF-compatible (?)] formats that he found among deposited powder data files at...
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Armel Le Bail
armel@...
Nov 22, 1999 2:12 pm
... Trying to maintain a minimum of discussion at the SDPD mailing list : I would add that the Computing Commission could (should...) create a bank of well...
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Peter Y. Zavalij
pzavalij@...
Nov 22, 1999 3:24 pm
CIF toolbox by Toby Brian is one that must be in the software database. It is a very good, easy to use code for handling CIF files. Dr. Peter Y. Zavalij...
