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Re: little and big endian -- once more [message #15423 is a reply to message #15342]

Thu, 13 May 1999 00:00

Liam Gumley
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Registered: November 1994

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Dick Jackson wrote:
> I'm not sure if I'm missing some subtlety here, but wouldn't the (newish)
> keywords /SWAP_IF_[BIG|LITTLE]_ENDIAN to IDL's OPEN and BYTEORDER routines
> work in all cases? I've used them to good effect for cross-platform work.
>
> From the help file:
>
> [...] it only takes effect if the current system has [big|little] endian
> byte ordering. This keyword does not refer to the byte ordering of the input
> data, but to the computer hardware.

This method assumes that you keep track of which platform was used to
create the datafile. I'd rather just interrogate the datafile.

Or of course, you can use netCDF. We're working an a specification right
now for a simplified set of 3 functions to perform netCDF read, write,
and inquire operations. I'll post them when they're ready.

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Liam E. Gumley
Space Science and Engineering Center, UW-Madison
http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/~gumley

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