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IDL/PV-Wave - Can they strip headers in binary files?
Could someone tell me how IDL or PV-Wave copes with dislaying data from a binary file which has a a header of various types (ie int,float,string) and which also defines the number of records in the file. Would the header have to be stripped first by another program? I am specifically interested in how easy it is to read from a file of this type and ouput the data in a graphical format(ie plot etc). Are any of the two products more suited to this task? Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks. -- Paul Porcelli Technical Programmer Dept of Aerospace Engineering University of Glasgow Tel: 041-339-8855 (x4345)