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Re: Read and Write IDL SAVE files! [message #23757 is a reply to message #23679]

Tue, 13 February 2001 14:46

Craig Markwardt
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Registered: November 1996

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Reimar Bauer <r.bauer@fz-juelich.de> writes:

> Craig Markwardt wrote:
>>
>> I am pleased to release a library for reading writing and
>> interrogating IDL SAVE files on my web page:
>>
>> http://cow.physics.wisc.edu/~craigm/idl/idl.html
>>
>
> Dear Craig,
>
> that's wonderful. This saves me a lot of future work, because I am
> working on an idea how to write IDL SAV files by C/Fortran or LabView.
>
> RSI won't like to give me the specifications of this format.
>
> So I am waiting for your documentation.

You mean you can't figure it out from the code? :-)

Writing it in C or FORTRAN would in some ways be easier, but in some
ways more difficult. I use the benefit of being able to EXECUTE
expressions in order to build up named structures for example. The
dynamic typing is also a real boon. This would be harder in C or
FORTRAN. However, if you are just interested in simple things --
arrays and scalars -- then the format is quite straightforward. It
would be somewhat faster to execute in a compiled language.

Craig

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		Read and Write IDL SAVE files! By: Craig Markwardt on Mon, 12 February 2001 03:45
		Re: Read and Write IDL SAVE files! By: Michael L. Kaiser on Fri, 16 February 2001 05:18
		Re: Read and Write IDL SAVE files! By: Christopher W. O'Dell on Thu, 15 February 2001 07:35
		Re: Read and Write IDL SAVE files! By: Craig Markwardt on Wed, 14 February 2001 12:10
		Re: Read and Write IDL SAVE files! By: Christopher W. O'Dell on Wed, 14 February 2001 11:48
		Re: Read and Write IDL SAVE files! By: R.Bauer on Wed, 14 February 2001 09:39
		Re: Read and Write IDL SAVE files! By: Craig Markwardt on Tue, 13 February 2001 14:46
		Re: Read and Write IDL SAVE files! By: R.Bauer on Tue, 13 February 2001 09:32

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