BRUKER NMR binary data -> SGI binary FELIX program

[YATES, JOHN H.]

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 at a.chem.upenn.edu