On these web pages you can find documentation about and download the latest versions of the ANA, AVE and ROD programs originally written by Elias Vlieg (e.vlieg@science.ru.nl) for MS-DOS and later modified at the ESRF in order to run on different operating systems as well. They are available for Windows (2000/XP/Vista/7, using MinGW-w64) and for several versions of UNIX (Linux 64 bit and Mac OS X on Intel hardware).

There are two different distributions available, one "standard" that is up to date with the latest version of Elias Vlieg, and one "extended" where new but not fully tested features have been incorporated.

These web pages are divided into the following categories:

Information and manuals for the standard version

Information and manuals for the extended version

Frequently asked questions (FAQ)

History of the ANA-ROD project

Mailing list instructions and archive

Download pages

News 20/12/2011:

• ANA (extended version only): corrected several bugs in the fitting routines
• ANA (extended version only): added new commands "reset" and "select" to the "SET FITTING PARAMETERS" menu
• ANA (extended version only): added a new format for the reading of SPEC files
• AVE: increased maximum number of data points from 2000 to 5000
• ROD (extended version only): included anomalous dispersion corrections
• ROD (extended version only): increased maximum number of atoms in model from 1000 to 5000
• ROD (extended version only): updated and completed the information in the manual Rasmol extensions to ROD
• The ANAROD versions for Solaris and Linux 32 bit have been discontinued
• For the WINDOWS version, CYGWIN was replaced by MinGW-w64 as development basis to avoid the problems with incompatible versions of the CYGWIN runtime library "cygwin1.dll". Now the ANA, AVE and ROD executables depend only on dynamic libraries from MS-WINDOWS
• The CYGWIN libraries "cygwin1.dll" and "cygncurses-8.dll" are therefore no longer needed and have been removed from the ANAROD distribution
• Menu interface: for the WINDOWS version, with MinGW a different system for handling the terminal interface had to be used. It works fine for a standard WINDOWS command terminal (including resizing), but cannot handle some of the more complicated terminal configurations
• Plot interface: cleaned up the handling of background / foreground colors, and made sure that no element of the plot (text, axes, curves, data) can have the same color as the background
• Plot interface: re-defined several colors of the color menu, as they do not exist in the standard "rgb.txt" color file
• Plot interface: for the WINDOWS version, add documentation in README_GNUWIN.txt about the options that can be set in the initialization file "grwnd.ini" of the graphics server