Capabilities of coupling dissimilar computer codes

A method for automatically controlling commercial computer codes is described. The coupling of the automation system of the EXAFS spectrometer controlled by a DOS-operated computer that we developed and the commercial program of a semiconductor-detector control installed on a Windows-operated computer is given as the example. The described complex system is used for the automation of the intermediate processing of amplitude spectra while measuring EXAFS spectra at the Kurchatov Synchrotron Radiation Source.