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Re: Help: Byte-swapping program [message #3324 is a reply to message #3323]

Tue, 13 December 1994 07:50

thompson
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grunes@news.nrl.navy.mil (Mitchell R Grunes) writes:

> One of the nice things about IDL and PV-Wave is that (as far as I know)
> READU and WRITEU don't assume or add in any extra bytes. BUT I haven't
> used IDL/Wave much on the VAX, and it might be an exception.

It is, but one can open up a file on the VAX with the /BLOCK qualifier and then
READU and WRITEU works just like it does in Unix. I use that in combination
with IEEE_TO_HOST and HOST_TO_IEEE to write OS-independent files.

Bill Thompson

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		Re: Help: Byte-swapping program By: thompson on Tue, 13 December 1994 07:57
		Re: Help: Byte-swapping program By: thompson on Tue, 13 December 1994 07:50
		Re: Help: Byte-swapping program By: grunes on Mon, 12 December 1994 12:16
		Re: Help: Byte-swapping program By: plutchak on Mon, 12 December 1994 10:54
		Re: Help: Byte-swapping program By: thompson on Mon, 12 December 1994 08:04
		Re: Help: Byte-swapping program By: grunes on Mon, 12 December 1994 07:39
		Re: Help: Byte-swapping program By: grunes on Mon, 12 December 1994 07:12

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