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Re: 10 bytes real [message #22261 is a reply to message #22256]

Thu, 26 October 2000 15:40

Craig Markwardt
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Registered: November 1996

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Pavel Romashkin <promashkin@cmdl.noaa.gov> writes:
> Craig Markwardt wrote:
>
>> bb = bytarr(8) ;; Read ten bytes of data
>> readu, unit, bb
>
> Sorry, Craig, I am not following you here. How exactly does the above
> read 10 bytes into an eight-element array?
> I guess I've done enough IDLing for one day. Can't figure a one-liner
> out :-(

[Legal eagle mode]

If you look carefully, I only talked about 4- and 8-byte floating
point numbers. I have no idea how to read 10-byte ones. This is an
Intel-ism that IDL doesn't seem to support.

Craig

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		Re: 10 bytes real By: Peter Mason on Mon, 30 October 2000 13:46
		Re: 10 bytes real By: Ed Santiago on Mon, 30 October 2000 05:39
		Re: 10 bytes real By: Craig Markwardt on Fri, 27 October 2000 09:39
		Re: 10 bytes real By: davidf on Fri, 27 October 2000 09:08
		Re: 10 bytes real By: Karl Schultz on Fri, 27 October 2000 08:39
		Re: 10 bytes real By: Thierry Wannier on Thu, 26 October 2000 23:20
		Re: 10 bytes real By: Craig Markwardt on Thu, 26 October 2000 15:40
		Re: 10 bytes real By: promashkin on Thu, 26 October 2000 15:07
		Re: 10 bytes real By: Craig Markwardt on Thu, 26 October 2000 08:31

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