If you are running UNIX V.960101, it is fully compliant. The date and day
of the week switch properly from Dec. 31, 1999 to Jan. 1, 2000. It also
recognizes 2000 as a leap year and again correctly changes both the date
and day of the week. I don't know about earlier versions, but this one
does work just fine with an older system.
If, like us, you have the 2-channel interface, you are restricted to using
UXNMR V.920801, as later versions will not work properly wihout the MCI.
The spectrometer still works and stores the spectra with the correct date
in the data directory, but this version of UXNMR cannot cope with dates
past 1999, and every time you try to do something which accesses the date
(e.g. plotting, dpa), you get an error message on the screen which must be
manually cleared before the command is enacted. The commands do still
work, however. Bruker suggest removing the DATE parameter from the format
files used for plotting and printing, but this means that you no longer
have the date appearing in your plots. If any one has a solution for this
, I would be glad to hear of it.
Chris
Christine Greenwood,
Senior Scientific Assistant (NMR),
Department of Chemistry,
University of Victoria,
P.O. Box 3065, Victoria, B.C.,
V8W 3V6