Re: bigendian/littleendian binary data

[Jaison Kurian <jaison@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Prasad,
           In usermanual see the explanation for "/SWAP" (Ch2 Sec4.2.3.  
Byte-swapped stream files)

     Stream files with byte-swapped numbers can be read with the 
/SWAP qualifier. 

 To know the BYTEORDER of the current machine : 

      yes ? show symbol BYTEORDER

With Regards 

Jaison 


On Tue, 15 Mar 2005, Thoppil, Prasad IND wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have some binary data files that are generated on a bigendian computer. I would like to plot them using ferret which is running on linux platform (littleendian). When I plotted it shows 1.e30. Is there an easy way to do it without generating a NetCdf file?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Prasad
> 
> 

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