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Re: FastBinaryFiles again...

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg18914] Re: FastBinaryFiles again...
• From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
• Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 14:27:51 -0400
• Organization: Universitaet Leipzig
• References: <7negh5$24s@smc.vnet.net>
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

Hi Virgil,

first of all. I have never used the package. I just compile it for fun.
Typical I have a C program that runs to long in MathLink mode. The
C-program
write some files and a mathlink program read the binaries. This is
better
than to use the general routine. The general routine works fine if you
have
cross-platform binaries ( Cray T3D output) and you do some post
processing with
Mathematica.

> However, I am now rather sure that FastBinaryFiles is not being used
> since some of the options unique to FastBinaryFiles are not available.> 
> Some questions not addressed in the installations instructions
> for Windows NT 4.0 are:
> 
>  1. Where should the MathLink.ini file be placed?

In the windows directory. But there is a MathLink.ini file because
Matheamtica use MathLink.

>  2. How does one load FastBinaryFiles into a notebook?

You can only load it into the kernel. The Frontend and the notebook
interface
call the kernel and the kernel call your MathLink program. 
Install[] will also work.

>  3. How to test that FastBinaryFiles is being used?

Write a file/read a file ? Worte a small C program that create
a binary file with know data and try to read it with Mathematica ?

Regards
  Jens