MathGroup Archive 1999

[Date Index] [Thread Index] [Author Index]

Search the Archive

Bug in Utilities`BinaryFiles`

  • To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
  • Subject: [mg15746] Bug in Utilities`BinaryFiles`
  • From: Brett Patterson <Brett.Patterson at durham.ac.uk>
  • Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 03:42:42 -0500 (EST)
  • Organization: University of Durham
  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

There seems to be a bug, or omission in the package
Utilities`BinaryFiles`.

The option ByteOrder defaults to MostSignificantByteFirst, however on a
DEC Alpha (Digital Unix), the byte order is LSB. The ByteOrder
functionality seems to be absent in all the Read functions (e.g.
ReadListBinary), so that

ReadListBinary[filename, Single, ByteOrder->LeastSignificantByteFirst]

produces identical garbage to

ReadListBinary[filename, Single, ByteOrder->MostSignificantByteFirst].

Note that the functionality works with Integers. Why is this not working
for Reals?

I've looked at the package code, and the functionality for LSB/MSB
appears to be missing.

Regards,
Brett

--
======================================================================
Dr Brett A. Patterson              Room 148 Astronomical
Instrumentation Group Tel: +44 191 374 2105 Department of Physics      
Fax: +44 191 374 3749 University of Durham              
mailto:Brett.Patterson at durham.ac.uk South Road, Durham DH1 3LE, UK    
http://star-www.dur.ac.uk/~bap



  • Prev by Date: Q: how to list vertices of the Geodesate[] of a polyhedron?
  • Next by Date: Re: Help to clarify 'Map', 'Apply', and 'Thread'.
  • Previous by thread: Re: Q: how to list vertices of the Geodesate[] of a polyhedron?
  • Next by thread: Re: a tricky limit