comp.lang.idl-pvwave archive
Messages from Usenet group comp.lang.idl-pvwave, compiled by Paulo Penteado

Home » Public Forums » archive » Size limit on ASCII output files?
Show: Today's Messages :: Show Polls :: Message Navigator
E-mail to friend 
Switch to threaded view of this topic Create a new topic Submit Reply
Size limit on ASCII output files? [message #26417] Wed, 29 August 2001 12:43
Barry Lesht is currently offline  Barry Lesht
Messages: 8
Registered: December 2000
Junior Member
I was just trying to generate an ASCII file using PrintF and found that
my system seems to limit the size of the output file to 64K (65536
characters). The file I produced was incomplete; changing the output
format results in a different incomplete file, but one still 65536
characters long. I was doing this interactively using:

IDL> OpenW, lun, 'output.dat', /Get_LUN
IDL> ulim = N_Elements(t)-1
IDL> FOR i=0, ulim, DO PrintF, t(i), v1(i), v2(i), v3(i), v4(i),
Format='(5f10.5)'
IDL> Close, lun
IDL> Free_LUN, lun
IDL> Spawn, 'ls -l output.dat'
-rw-r--r-- 1 blesht user 65536 Aug 29 14:11 sedmodin.dat

The vectors are several thousand elements long. I'm using IDL5.4 under
IRIX6.5.12. Does anyone know if this is an IDL problem that can be
addressed with some option or keyword I haven't found or a unix (IRIX)
related problem? Thanks.

--
Barry M. Lesht
Associate Director,
Environmental Research Division
Argonne National Laboratory Phone: 630.252.4208
9700 S. Cass Ave. FAX: 630.252.2959
Argonne, IL 60439 e-mail: bmlesht@anl.gov
  Switch to threaded view of this topic Create a new topic Submit Reply
Previous Topic: Re: tetra_volume - clarification, details?
Next Topic: Ignore previous query

-=] Back to Top [=-
[ Syndicate this forum (XML) ] [ RSS ] [ PDF ]

Current Time: Thu Oct 16 01:43:22 PDT 2025

Total time taken to generate the page: 0.47874 seconds