Well, I was basing my information on what the company that sells Jade told
me.
- Kurt
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From: "A. van der Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 3:17 AM
On 7 Dec 2004 at 12:23, Kurt Leinenweber wrote:
>
> Bruker's data format is a binary, proprietary format. Programs such as
Jade
> that can read it are written by clever programmers who were able to hack
> into the Bruker format. However, the only source I have found for free
> programs is from Bruker itself.
>
What does this mean exactly, proprietary format? That it is secret? I
am not a very clever programmer, but with the aid of Bruker's own
manual for their data file conversion utility XCH (to which I
referred one or two days ago), Appendices A-C, in which the binary
format is explained in detail, I am able to write a conversion
utility .raw to .gsas myself in a couple of hours. I did the same
thing for the conversion of Bruker peak list files (.dif) to Crysfire
.cdt files. This utility is now distributed with the Crysfire
distribution.
And I am not the only one who did this. The LMPG suite of programs
(Jean Laugier) are all capable to read in Bruker raw files.
Arie
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