Hi,

In fact the problem was solved with the help of Ivica Dilovic from Zagreb who suggested some changes to the shelxl .ins file. After these modifications the cryptic error message was still there, but the modifications made me try to remove one card. That did it.

So the part that is concerned with this error in the .ins file is as follows:

did not work and gave the cryptic error message:
TITL 240223Ru_complex_0m_5 in P1
CELL 1.34139  10.36240  11.17780  13.19300  80.8589  73.7519  71.3166
ZERR    2.00   0.00070   0.00080   0.00090   0.0026   0.0023   0.0023
LATT -1
SFAC C H N O CL RU
UNIT 62 64 2 10 2 2
TEMP -163.150
TREF
L.S. 10
EXTI 0.001
WGHT 0.0617
BOND $H
CONF
HTAB
FMAP 2
PLAN 20
FVAR 0.75351

worked and gave no error:
TITL 240223Ru_complex_0m_5 in P1
CELL 1.34139 10.3624 11.1778 13.193 80.8589 73.7519 71.3166
ZERR 2 0.0007 0.0008 0.0009 0.0026 0.0023 0.0023
LATT -1
SFAC C H N O Cl Ru
DISP C 0.0137 0.0067 57.1
DISP Cl 0.3281 0.5435 4162.2
DISP H 0 0 0.6
DISP N 0.0241 0.0134 109.9
DISP O 0.0389 0.0241 193.4
DISP Ru -0.076 2.5955 20068.6
UNIT 62 64 2 10 2 2
L.S. 10
PLAN  10
TEMP -163.15
CONF
BOND $H
HTAB
MORE -1
fmap 2
WGHT 0.1
FVAR 0.25491

I guess it would be much better (from the user's point of view) if SHELXL would write on the output what the offending line is.

Also, no indications are given on the SHELX site where the Windows .exe files are supposed to go. They must be placed in the directory where the GUI (olex2 or WingX) stores its exe file (olex2.exe or wingx.exe). I just tried to place them there because I was desperate and it worked.

Cheers, and thanks to everyone for their suggestions.

Fred.

On 2024-03-12 16:12, Kay Diederichs wrote:
Fred,

nobody would be offended if you'd just post your SHELXL .ins file here; there are enough experienced crystallographers to spot the mistake. Best would be if you could pare it down to small size, but such that it is still reproducible (my own experience is that this almost always makes me find my own mistakes).

But to try and answer your title question, there is the bruker-...@g-groups.wisc.edu mailing list.

Best wishes,
Kay

########################################################################

To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link:
https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1

This message was issued to members of www.jiscmail.ac.uk/CCP4BB, a mailing list hosted by www.jiscmail.ac.uk, terms & conditions are available at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/

########################################################################

To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link:
https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1

This message was issued to members of www.jiscmail.ac.uk/CCP4BB, a mailing list 
hosted by www.jiscmail.ac.uk, terms & conditions are available at 
https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/

Reply via email to