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> This could be in free format.
The free format is not as free as it looks. If someone want to use an
old program then always a data converter will be necessary.
In long term, a standard in file formating will improve our work.
I don't know yet how is NEXUS but I believe that an ASCII format
-CIF style- will be just fine and not a binary one.
Do we still have to worry about the disk space ?
How about the time spent to read a binary file ?
> Many Rietveld programs are a throwback to the days of Fortran IV and
> the need for data to be compact. Also, operations on integers were quicker.
> In the days of C, better Fortran and the Pentium, these constraints are and
> anachronism. We no longer need work with integer intensities for example.
Of course that is no need to squeeze the data in integers.
(as some software does !)
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--Nita DRAGOEhttp://www.hongo.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~tdragoe