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Re: transfering data files [message #16653 is a reply to message #16652]

Mon, 09 August 1999 00:00

Andy Loughe
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Registered: November 1995

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Kenneth Mankoff wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
> I need to transfer idl ".dat" files between computers. One is a Sun
> running solaris, the other is a Dell laptop running Linux. The sun has
> IDL5.2, Linux is running IDL5.1. The files are corrupted when transfered,
> unless i copy them to .sav files. Is there any way around this?
>
> thanks,
> ken.

How were these .dat files created?

Is this an endian-ness issue?
Maybe swap_endian would help.

Does it help to set /xdr in the openr statement?
openr, iu, file, /get_lun, xdr=1

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		Re: transfering data files By: davidf on Tue, 10 August 1999 00:00
		Re: transfering data files By: Kenneth Mankoff on Tue, 10 August 1999 00:00
		Re: transfering data files By: davidf on Mon, 09 August 1999 00:00
		Re: transfering data files By: Andy Loughe on Mon, 09 August 1999 00:00

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