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Issue on downloading fastPHASE in Mac

Hi,

I am trying to download fastPHASE in mac. I have downloaded macOSfp.tar. It looks like there should be 5 files inside the folder after unzipping but I only have one. Does anyone have any idea?

Thanks

fastphase

Does anyone have any idea?

Yeah - how did you "unzip" a tar file? tar files are not compressed.

1 answer

I have found a similar/same problem. http://scheet.org/software.html links to http://scheet.org/code/Linuxfp.tar.gz

> gunzip Linuxfp.tar.gz 
> tar -xf Linuxfp.tar 
tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword 'SCHILY.dev'
tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword 'SCHILY.ino'
tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword 'SCHILY.nlink'
> ls
fastPHASE  Linuxfp.tar

> chmod u+x fastPHASE 
>  ./fastPHASE 
seed = 1621074034
This is fastPHASE 1.4.8
error opening file iRead_data_pre:
cannot open fastphase.inp

so the example input files, mentioned in the manual, are missing.

Out of polite curiosity, what use to people have for fastPHASE in 2021? I believe it's still the most accurate method, but pretty slow. So for use when you have very small sample sizes?

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