While it is easier to use directly the raw data file, I preffer to use instead ascii files (in ascii files one can easily see the data..). On of the problems is that the ascii file may be a little bigger 100K instead of 50k, but this may not be the issue nowadays; in my opinion the real problem is related to the rather frequent changes of the 'proprietary' format : for the philips *.RD data there are several variants, and not all explained clearly (rd3 to rd5, sd3, sd5..).
One of the solutions might be the use of the recent (public ?) format xrdml, proposed by Panalytical which is basically an html file. I hear that this new format is now implemented in Fullprof...
Regards
N
PS Proprietary means probably that you are not allow to sell software using this format ???
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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