[gradsusr] Grads on Macs vs. Linux Machines

Marjahn Finlayson mfinlayson at wesleyan.edu
Wed Jan 7 17:20:33 EST 2015


Thanks you both! But it turns out that the endianness doesn't seem to be
the problem.
Changing the endianness on my laptop only seems to create funkier graphs.
I'm not sure why.

On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 12:16 AM, Rick Danielson <onto.limbo at gmail.com>
wrote:

>  Hi Marjahn,
>
>      It's more likely that the two machines have different endianness (the
> bits of each
> byte are ordered oppositely; see
> http://docstore.mik.ua/orelly/unix3/mac/ch04_03.htm)
> or perhaps byte size (one machine is 32-bit and the other 64-bit).  Such
> differences helped
> motivate the creation of formats like netCDF.  (One can share netCDF data
> via "sdfwrite".)
>
> Cheers,
> Rick
>
>
>
> On 01/05/2015 10:09 PM, Marjahn Finlayson wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>  I'm having trouble with a dataset that was created on a Linux machine
> and was downloaded on a Mac laptop. My colleague and I are using the same
> data: she is using a Linux and I am on a Mac laptop. I've attached the same
> graph of this dataset from both computers.
>
>  Can anyone explain the issue here?
>
>  Thanks.
>
>  Marjahn
>
>
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