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Wine for Crystallography - Running Crystallographic Windows programs under Linux using the Wine Emulator

Running LZON Powder Indexing program for DOS under Wine/Linux

(Note: Windows programs under wine may not be 100% functional but may give you the functionality you need to get the job done)

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File name Case problems

Note: Many problems running Windows programs on Wine can be solved just by putting the file in the correct case (lower case usually).

If using the chcase perl script for UNIX, just go to the offending directory and run the following command to get all the files (in this example) into lower case:

chcase -r -d '*' (goes through subdirectories)

chcase -d '*.*' (just files with the *.* format in the present working directory)


LZON

As an example of a minor problem you can encounter running a Windows program, INDX from the LMGP suite is a good example.

Download the Crysfire Suite ZIP file from your closest CCP14 based mirror via the Crysfire Powder Indexing Suite by Robin Shirley tutorials page

Extract all the files using the command: unzip crysinst.zip

Now this actually might be a bit more tricky as LZON wants to see a certain file lzon.dat with the peak profiling/peak position information when it is run. You will find out with trial and error that it wants this file to be in lower case :

wine lzon

You can also tell Wine to emulate a certain version of Windows in case this is what the program wants.

wine -winver win31 lzon


Job done and lzon for DOS powder indexing running in a happy manner under Linux.

Running LZON for DOS under Wine/Linux


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