McGill Electron Microprobe Laboratory 



Software of Interest to JEOL 8900 Operators This software is offered as a service to the microanalysis community. No guarantee as to its suitability is offered or implied. Most of these programs are used on a routine basis in this lab, but bugs still exist, so you should use them with caution. If you have, bug reports, questions, or suggestions for improvement I would be glad to hear from you. I can be contacted at glennp@stoner.eps.mcgill.camcgill.ca Home Grown Software These programs are written in the Perl Scripting language, and should run as is on all computers supplied by JEOL (except where noted). They are supplied as tar archives. Click on the icon or text to download   M2T 1.10 M2T converts JEOL *.map files into 256 grayscale tiff images. It is menu driven, asking for the maps to be converted, the output directory, and whether the output is to be compressed or not. For information on the map size name etc, it reads the 0.cnd file associated with each map. This program calls another program called specn (Ó 1996 Steeve McCauley) to do the actual conversion from a map file to a tif file.

  BURN 1.0 Burn is equivalent to the JEOL chart recorder, except that it allows you to access the data. This is useful for things like working with beam sensitive material, tracking carbon contamination rates, etc. If you have access to the graphing program xmgr burn can display the results graphically after acquisition.

   ELOGHTML 1.0 Elog is an Electronic Logbook program which :

1. Puts shift data (Start, End, User, Account, Media used etc) in a database file
2. Emails this data to the supervisor (or whoever)
3. If the probe is still running, monitors it and updates the database file when analyses are finished (this works about 98% of the time)

This program uses HTML forms to present a graphic interface to the user, therefore it must be run from a machine with an operating webserver (no big deal to install). For a character based version of this program, see the next item.  ELOG 1.0 Elog is an Electronic Logbook program which :

1. Puts shift data (Start, End, User, Account, Media used etc) in a database file
2. Emails this data to the supervisor (or whoever)

This is a text only version of this program. At the present time it does watch for the end of analyses. If you want this I could do it quickly.  Multisamp 0.8 Are you tired of switching from sample to sample when you are analysing multiple minerals (alloys, ceramics etc) with multiple sample conditions? Then multisamp is for you. When you start the program, it asks for a list of samples you want to enter stage data for. After that you just change from sample to sample by hitting two keys. When you are finished you set the whole thing up in serial analyses and go home. The program is just about finished, as soon as I can use the probe myself I'll finish it

   GetCnd 1.0 This is a simple program to allow viewing or printing of a stored condition files. Unfortunately it is written in Perl 5 (I needed 2 dimensional arrays) , so it won't run on most probes. Maybe when JEOL upgrades the system software to HP-UX 10 Perl 5 will be standard.  

  Last Modified: February 20, 1997 

 

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