I'm trying to learn about the NeXus Format because I think some of it's features may be useful for a project I'm working on, which is to help develop a standard for sharing neuroscience data.<br><br>I've installed NeXus on Linux from a recent source, file is:<br>
nexus-4.3.0-20120814svn.tar.gz<br><br>Now I'm trying to get the various utilities working, which are documented at:<br><a href="http://download.nexusformat.org/doc/html/utilities.html">http://download.nexusformat.org/doc/html/utilities.html</a><br>
<br>There are two validation utilities described in the documentation: a command line tool (nxvalidate) and a Java GUI program (NXvalidate).<br><br>After doing the installation, I found the following utilities in /usr/local/bin:<br>
nexpy nexus-config nxbrowse nxbuild nxconvert nxdiff nxdir nxingest nxsummary nxtranslate nxtraverse nxvalidate<br><br>The only validation utility is named "nxvalidate" (all lower case), but it's a Java GUI application, not a command line utility as the documentation states.<br>
<br>When I run nxvalidate, inside the GUI, there is a Help menu which includes the following page:<br><a href="http://download.nexusformat.org/doc/nxvalidate/ch01s08.html">http://download.nexusformat.org/doc/nxvalidate/ch01s08.html</a><br>
<br>That page states that there is a download available, "example.zip", which contains an example that can be used with NXvalidate. However, I was not able to find the example.zip file at the location which is referenced:<br>
<a href="http://www.nexusformat.org/Download">http://www.nexusformat.org/Download</a><br><br>Question 1) Is there another location where this example.zip file is available, or are there some other sample files that can be downloaded and used with with the utilities?<br>
<br>Question 2) The page documenting the utilities also mentions a utility named "NXplot". I did not find that in the /usr/local/bin. Is it, or a replacement, available?<br><br><br>----------<br><br>One thing I noticed while doing the installation: The README file inside the source download directory states: "2) At present it is necessary to run the autogen shell script to produce the correct configure file.<br>
sh autogen.sh"<br><br>But there is no "autogen.sh" file in the directory. I assumed that this was an error in the README file, since the autogen.sh file was missing and the installation seemed to work OK without that step.<br>
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