Bin on MAC OSX

[Heiner Körnich]

Hallo,

I prefer to think in "little_endian" or "big_endian". So you do not have
to change byteswapped, but declare once whether your data is big or
little endian.
The option in the CTL-file is only about the data, not the system that
you are on, except when you use byteswapped, then you have to know where
you come from and where you go.

As far as I know:
Big_endian is UNIX, old MACs.
Little_endian is Linux, windows and new intel Macs (!).

Best wishes,
Heiner

Katherin Kullgren wrote:
> I use MAC OSX, and I need to include
> OPTIONS byteswapped
> in my control file.
> That works like a charm.
>
> Also, if you create the bin file on your MAC, and want to view it on
> Windows, you need to also include the byteswapped option in that
> control file.  Hope it helps!
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> On Oct 31, 2006, at 4:54 PM, Carlos carsl wrote:
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>> Hi there. I have one problem here, hope you can help me.  I'm using
>> grads on my mac osx (1.9b4 version) and when I open bin files,
>> something wrong is happening and grads can't read the file. It opens
>> ok, I can check file options  but when I try to display any
>> variable,  it displays nothing.  What's the problem? My processor is
>> a duo core 32 bit, and in the ctl file i informed the system is big
>> endian.
>>
>> Can you help me? Is there any difference from mac os  to windows or
>> linux that can  explain this problem?
>>
>>
>> tks
>

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Heiner Körnich
Dept. of Meteorology            Tel:  +46 8 164333
Stockholms University, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
Email: heiner at misu.su.se   www.misu.su.se/~heiner/