Apologies for the delay in responding, I've been away from internet access. > Can you set ORAC_DATA_ROOT to a variable that includes a full path > rather than a relative path? I did that with the same results as my initial attempt. ORAC-DR Says: Pre-starting mandatory monoliths...perl_ams94915 aborting, failed creating directory : Undefined error: 0 >> Unable to locate a raw data directory. Please fix ORAC_DATA_IN. >> >> ORAC Data Reduction Pipeline (ORAC-DR Version unknown) > > This "unknown" is because snow leopard doesn't come with git (lion does). > >> Configured for instrument ACSIS >> >> Type "oracdr -man" for usage >> Type 'showme sunXXX' to browse the hypertext documentation >> >> Raw data will be read from raw/acsis/spectra/20120605 >> !!!!!!!!!!!! but that directory does not exist !!!!!!!!! > > Do you think that directory does exist? No. Cheers Larry ---- Starlink User Support list For list configuration, including subscribing to and unsubscribing from the list, see https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=STARLINK