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Re: Problems reading binary files - pointer at 4096 gives EOF [message #19475 is a reply to message #19473]

Wed, 22 March 2000 00:00

davidf
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Registered: September 1996

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Liam Gumley (Liam.Gumley@ssec.wisc.edu) writes:

> A simple test case worked fine for me in IDL 5.3 / Windows98:
>
> IDL Version 5.3 (Win32 x86). (c) 1999, Research Systems, Inc.
>
> IDL> openw, 1, 'zzz.dat' & writeu, 1, bytarr(16384) & close, 1
> IDL> openr, lun, 'zzz.dat', /get_lun
> IDL> point_lun, lun, 4096L
> IDL> print, eof(lun)
> 0
> IDL> info = fstat(lun)
> IDL> print, info.cur_ptr
> 4096
>
> Am I missing something?

You know what this is? It just occurred to me.

This is that same old file pointer bug Wayne Landsman
alerted us to on at least two occasions now. I have
*got* to make time to write some more articles for my
web page. I'm forgetting more IDL these days than I
have learned. :-(

Anyway, this program can be fixed by adding a BINARY
keyword to the OPENR statement when you are reading the
data.

Cheers,

David
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		Re: Problems reading binary files - pointer at 4096 gives EOF By: Martin Schultz on Thu, 23 March 2000 00:00
		Re: Problems reading binary files - pointer at 4096 gives EOF By: davidf on Wed, 22 March 2000 00:00
		Re: Problems reading binary files - pointer at 4096 gives EOF By: davidf on Wed, 22 March 2000 00:00
		Re: Problems reading binary files - pointer at 4096 gives EOF By: Liam E. Gumley on Wed, 22 March 2000 00:00
		Re: Problems reading binary files - pointer at 4096 gives EOF By: davidf on Wed, 22 March 2000 00:00

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