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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Hi,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">nxvalidate used to be a command line tool, but was then replaced by a java GUI application developed by a colleague, but I am working on reinstating a command
line version too – I will update you when this is complete. I am not sure of the location of “example.zip”, but some test data for nxvalidate is at
<a href="http://svn.nexusformat.org/definitions/trunk/test/">http://svn.nexusformat.org/definitions/trunk/test/</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">NXplot was a utility started a few years ago and is available in the “contrib/applications” directory, but is not installed as part of the build. There is a
README.build file there, but I have not used the utility myself.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">The README is indeed incorrect in your case – it should say that you only need to run autogen.sh if you do not have a “configure” file, which is the case if
you obtain a copy directly from the subversion repository; as you have a tar download kit, this includes a generated “configure” and hence excludes autogen.sh<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Please share any definitions you develop for neuroscience data with us and let us know if we can be of any further help<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Freddie<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> nexus-bounces@nexusformat.org [mailto:nexus-bounces@nexusformat.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Jeff Teeters<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 06 March 2013 00:49<br>
<b>To:</b> nexus@nexusformat.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Nexus] nxvalidate example.zip file; NXplot<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">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>
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I've installed NeXus on Linux from a recent source, file is:<br>
nexus-4.3.0-20120814svn.tar.gz<br>
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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>
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There are two validation utilities described in the documentation: a command line tool (nxvalidate) and a Java GUI program (NXvalidate).<br>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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.<o:p></o:p></p>
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