diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+# KISS EIS Dataformaters
+
+Dataformaters contains misc. data formating utilites that are used to transfer file types used by eisgenerator/eistype into forign formats
+
+## Requirements
+
+* You must be running unix or a unix-like os such as linux
+* A c++17 compiler like gcc
+* cmake
+* libeisgenerator
+* libkisstype
+* git
+
+## Build and instructions
+
+```
+$ git clone REPO_URL dataformaters
+$ cd dataformaters
+$ mkdir build
+$ cd build
+$ cmake ..
+$ make
+$ make install
+```
diff --git a/src/matlabarraytoeis.cpp b/src/matlabarraytoeis.cpp
index 30412ec..29e0837 100644
--- a/src/matlabarraytoeis.cpp
+++ b/src/matlabarraytoeis.cpp
@@ -76,8 +76,8 @@ int main(int argc, char** argv)
 			std::string rul;
 			if(!std::getline(rulFile, rul).good())
 			{
-				std::cout<<argv[3]<<" dose not have the same number of lines as "<<argv[2]<<" aborting\n";
-				return 3;
+				std::cout<<argv[3]<<" dose not have the same number of lines as "<<argv[2]<<" this could be fine or mean that the supplied label file dosent corrispond to the spectra file\n";
+				return 0;
 			}
 
 			std::vector<eis::DataPoint> data = parseLine(eisLine);