[xcrysden] xcrysden Windows installation fails

[Tone Kokalj]

On Sun, 2009-01-11 at 08:45 -0800, Jonas Baltrusaitis wrote:
> I will have to apologize for being overly active  in this forum for a while but I can't seem to open anything with xcrysden: not input nor outputs of pwscf. The most common error is below. I am runnign the newest version Linux 64 bit which I am running remotely from Cygwin based windows computer
> 
> In fact, it gives thesame error when I try to open the pwscf output file in the /xcrysden/test/data folder
> 
> Could anybody shed some light?
> 
> thanks
> 
> Jonas
> 
> bad window path name ".a1"
> bad window path name ".a1"
>     while executing
> ....


I have never seen an error like that. Please run xcrysden as:

xcrysden -T >& log

and proceed to produce this error. Then send me the log file.

Regards, Tone
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