David, <br><br>Yes, I've apparently waded into a quagmire, one successfully avoided for years... While I am grateful for your response, learning that you've never come across such a variable given your experiences with IFIS is not great news. That said however, you wouldn't happen to have a copy of that "documentation" that you'd be willing to "share" would you?<br>
<br>Cheers, <br>Jason<br><br> <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 1:15 PM, David McFarlane <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mcfarla9@msu.edu">mcfarla9@msu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Jason,<br>
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Ah, IFIS! You didn't say that at the start, in that case all bets are off! We used IFIS for many years and finally abondoned it a few years back for our own custom setup, what a relief! I can't believe anyone still uses that outmoded system. IFIS is a mess, it forces a draconian task structure using several PackageCalls, it adds all sorts of attributes and overrides your E-Prime settings with settings that it hides in several Lists in Unreferenced E-Objects without explanation, and generally completely violates the well-designed task representation already provided by the designers of E-Prime. And it requires two computers for no good reason, and requires leaving a wide open network share, what an invitation for hackers! And the documentation is even worse than that for E-Prime, I had to work out all the principles and "gotchas" myself and distilled it down to a three-page writeup that explained more than their entire sorry excuse for a manual. Don't get me started! I feel sorry for you.<br>
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At 9/3/2010 12:42 PM Friday, you wrote:<br>
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David,<br>
<br>
Thanks for the quick response and "unfortunate" information about the<br>
variables. As this paradigm will be used for fMRI research, perhaps<br>
these are variables declared by IFIS. Regardless, more legwork is<br>
needed.<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
Jason<br>
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On Sep 3, 11:46 am, David McFarlane <<a href="mailto:mcfar...@msu.edu" target="_blank">mcfar...@msu.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
> Jason,<br>
><br>
> I have a *lot* of experience with EP and .edat files, and I do not<br>
> recognize these as standard attributes that would be added<br>
> automatically. Therefore, they must have been added by whoever made<br>
> your specific EP program, and you have to ask that person. No one<br>
> here will be able to help you, sorry.<br>
><br>
> -- David McFarlane, Professional Faultfinder<br>
><br>
> >In my edat file there are several time related variables with values<br>
> >that vex me. For example, the variable 'RunTime' = 14:45:07, which I<br>
> >understand. However the variable 'RunStartTime' = 162726 completely<br>
> >vexes me. Any insight into this would be greatly appreciated.<br>
><br>
> >Best regards,<br>
> >Jason<br>
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