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Re: Manipulating current read position in a binary file

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• Subject: [mg80286] Re: [mg80266] Manipulating current read position in a binary file
• From: Kristjan Kannike <kkannike at physic.ut.ee>
• Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 07:21:16 -0400 (EDT)
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Hello,

A quick and dirty fix that springs to mind is to use Pythonika

http://library.wolfram.com/infocenter/MathSource/6622/

On Thu, 16 Aug 2007, Aranthon wrote:

> grouped.  Is there a way to skip to the end of the file to read in the
> number of bins before returning to the beginning of the file to read
> in the actual data?  I can do the analysis In another CAS, since there are
> functions fseek and ftell, so that once I read in the number of data
> points I can seek to the end, get the grouping count, then seek back
> to the beginning, but I'd like to be able to do it in Mathematica.

Kristjan Kannike
<http://www.physic.ut.ee/~kkannike/english/>

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable
uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.

-- Ursula K. Le Guin

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