Hi Shwakat,

As a new ADF user, I would recommend you to use the excellent ADFGUI, in which you can just chose the basis set for your atoms in the drop down menu and the run file generation will be handled for you.

If you persist on running from the command line, note that the Create key has been obsolete for some type now and is recommended to use the basis key instead to have all the atomic runs done for you automatically also taking care of any awkward Windows syntax problems. I can not quickly see if this is the issue here, but if you still have problems when using the basis key:

http://www.scm.com/Doc/Doc2014/ADF/ADFUsersGuide/page37.html#keyscheme BASIS 

Or with using the GUI, let us know at [email protected] with input, output and error.

You can also use the ADF mailing list, of course.

Hope this helps!

Fedor

(PS: I soon hope to do a web presentation on the new ADF 2014 release, targeted at Australian users)

Thanks