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  BinaryRead question Ted Sariyski <tsariysk@craft-tech.com> - 2011-06-29 21:26 +0000

#3344 — BinaryRead question

Hi,

I have data which are available both in ASCII and binary formats. 
Importing ASCII data is really slow, between 3 and 5 minutes and I have 
many files. I tried BinaryRead but I need help here. Binary data 
consists of records. The first 32     bytes are the variable name, 
followed by numberOfPoints real*4. The first record in the file is 
numberOfPoints (integer*4):

numberOfPoints
var1 dataVar1(1:numberOfPoints)
var2 dataVar2(1:numberOfPoints)
...
Data are stored on Linux x86_64  machine in big-endian byte order.  
Could someone provide a template how the code should look like, please?

I have another related question.  I was thinking to use pipe 
(BinaryRead["!readData",...]), but I am confused because Mathematica is 
running on Windows7 and data are on Unix. I see two options: 1) to 
compile readData on Windows, or 2) to execute readData remotly e.g. "ssh 
remoteMachine  readData dataFn". I prefer the second way because i 
already have utilities to handle these data on Unix. Is there a document 
which provides examples for this type of data import?

Thanks in advance,
--Ted

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