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Chris B <BAUDECB1@EARTHLINK.NET> wrote in message news:<acg6ah$fbj$1@news-int.gatech.edu>...
} Is it possible to combine several libraries into one, later to be
} converted to another system using e.g. MassTransit?
} 
} eg: combine 2 or more Finnigan and then convert them to another system
} like Shimadzu?
} 
} -= Chris B =-

Bonjour Christian,

Yes.

If you use MassTransit you can convert your library to 
the HPJCAMP (JCAMP-DX) format.
As this is a text based format you can do a simple 
copy lib1.hpj+lib2.hpj > biglib.hpj (under DOS/WIN).
Or you combine both versions with a text editor.

In the next step you convert your "big JCAMP library" to
the format you want.

This is applicable to all library interconversion formats
from MASSTRANSIT http://63.173.29.69/html/mt-tech.htm.

You can see the JCAMP format at www.jcamp.org
There is a testdata.zip with 3 mass spectra example files (isas_ms1.dx).
See http://www.jcamp.org/testdata.html

If you want a "smart search" for mass spectra you should
use the NIST MS-Search program.


Cordialement,
Tobias Kind
www.amdis.net


PS: If you want to combine your HP Chemstation
*user* libraries you do not need MASSTRANSIT.

(1)
Download the free LIB2NIST (library conversion software)
from http://chemdata.nist.gov/mass-spc/Srch_v1.7/
Also try the NIST MS Search Demo. 

(2)
Convert you Chemstation user library to HP-JCAMP
with LIB2NIST. Copy your libs to one file.

(3)
Go to the Chemstation Parametric retrival mode
Import the JCAMP file via
Library/Read JCAMP file.

Voila!