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ReadListBinary -- Is this a bug?

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  • Subject: [mg17947] ReadListBinary -- Is this a bug?
  • From: Virgil Stokes <virgil.stokes at neuro.ki.se>
  • Date: Sat, 5 Jun 1999 02:56:11 -0400
  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

The following Mathematica code when
using Mathematica 3.0 produces unexpected results.

  <<Utilities`BinaryFiles`;
  Remove[data,stream];

  data = Table[n,{n,10,100}]

  stream = OpenWriteBinary["TestFile"]

  WriteBinary[stream,data,ByteConversion->Identity]
  WriteBinary[stream,data,ByteConversion->Identity]
  Close[stream];

  stream = OpenReadBinary["TestFile"];
  SetStreamPosition[stream,20];
  data = ReadListBinary[stream,Byte,20]

  StreamPosition[stream]
  SetStreamPosition[stream,0];

  kk = 20;
  data  = ReadListBinary[stream,Byte,kk] (* why doesn't this work? *)
  data = ReadListBinary[stream,Byte,20] (* while this works as expected *)
  SetStreamPosition[stream,0];
  data = ReadListBinary[stream,Byte]

  Close[stream]

What is puzzling is that the above ReadlListBinary[stream,Byte,kk]
does not execute as I would expect. It seems that the number of instances
parameter
for the ReadListBinary can not be symbolic -- why?.

-- Virgil




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