Principal programs in the ILL Unix SANS suite have been adapted to run on under PC-Windows, Macintosh and linux systems. They may be copied from the ftp server of the ILL, ftp://ftp.ill.fr/pub/cs/sans together with useful library routines. zip file distributions can also be found at: http://hookds.synology.me/softron .
A manual is available at: sans_manual.pdf
A program launcher PROP has been written to simplify use of programs on Windows XP etc. This offers facilities to set up work directories, data directories, and lauch the programs easily in a Windows environment. In addition it provides a simple way of viewing and printing results. This is included in the above zip file
Tim Pearson's PGPLOT graphics have been completely updated using Tsuguhiro TAMARIBUCHI's GRWND.EXE graphics server program which allows the graphics to be printed directly onto a standard windows printer. All programs have been recompiled using MinGW PC tools, and the libraries are included in the distribution file for those wishing to extend their use. All comments concerning errors or improvements will be welcomed.
R. Ghosh, reghosh (at) gmail.com
The recommended method for taking away raw data, which can clearly be voluminous, is to ask Service Informatique, si@ill.fr to write the data onto a CDROM. Using the ISO9660 standard these can be re-read on most CDROM drives.
Regrouped data can usually be sent by FTP, preferably after using zip, and sending in BINARY mode. Alternatively data can be written onto USB sticks or CDrom on the self-service PCs which have network access to the Unix systems (e.g. data for D11 cycle 2, 2004, data may be found on \\serdon\042\d11\ )
Please report difficulties that arise, errors, or other wishes for additional programs or modifications to Ron Ghosh reghosh (at) gmail.com