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Re: Problems reading binary files - pointer at 4096 gives EOF [message #19476 is a reply to message #19473]

Wed, 22 March 2000 00:00

Liam E. Gumley
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Registered: January 2000

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David Fanning <davidf@dfanning.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.1342aea03d2e7a00989aa3@news.frii.com...
> Oliver Smith (osmith@dera.gov.uk) writes:
>
>> I'm working on a program which loads data from a structured binary file.
>> Each
>> file contains many sets of different data types, each data field is
>> preceeded by a header(int) and fieldlength (long) before the data
itself.
>> In order to read the files, I use a WHILE NOT EOF(file) loop as there is
no
>> indication of the last field in the file. I've hit a major problem with
>> this, the EOF test reports end of file whenever the file pointer is at
4096.
>
> Yikes! And I find the same problem in IDL 5.1, IDL 5.2.1, and IDL 5.3.1.
> I even find it if I use FSTAT to report the file pointer position.
>
> Please let us know what you find out, Oliver.

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?

Cheers,
Liam.
PS: You might want to check out my binread and binwrite programs for reading
and writing binary data:
http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/~gumley/binarytools.html

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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
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