YATES@C.CHEM.UPENN.EDU ("YATES, JOHN H.") (05/08/91)
I have a user that collects NMR data on a BRUKER NMR system on 9 track tape that needs to use the FELIX programs (by Levy, et.al.) to process the data on an SGI machine (this machine has a 9 track tape drive). The problem is that the BRUKER front end writes binary data of some sort (we only have access to the exeuctables), and FELIX needs a different form of this binary data as input (and we only have executables for FELIX). The FELIX software people are incapable of providing a simple conversion routine for the SGI, (they do for the VAX evidently), even though it is a supported platform in that FELIX works on the SGI. How they expect you to get data to the SGI, I haven't a clue. If anyone out there understands this problem, and has suggestions for a solution, or a solution, please contact me. I am hoping someone out there with SGI machines has already crossed this bridge. I have heard horror stories of how some users have some sort of ASCII dump routines on a VAX, transfer from one mysterious format and machine to another, and eventually land on an SGI machine. Not very satisfactory, and never described explicitly enough to duplicate. (I don't use these programs or the BRUKER myself, but this is the problem as best I understand it from the user.) Thanks, John yates@a.chem.upenn.edu
YATES@C.CHEM.UPENN.EDU ("YATES, JOHN H.") (05/16/91)
Paul Fagerness (72557.212@CompuServe.COM) has supplied the solution to reading 9 track BRUKER NMR tapes directly on a 9 track drive on an SGI with conversion to FELIX program binary format. Thanks to all who gave help and advice (many more than I would have guessed). Paul has given me permission to distribute the code, I can e-mail a self unpacking shar file to anyone requesting it. He is also going to contact Dennis Hare see about putting it on the gifts/sgi directory of his NMR software distributions. Thanks all, John yates@a.chem.upenn.edu