As and addendum: the content of the binary file is in real*8 Fortran double-floating point precisions.
Btw: the files and 3d arrays are huge (around 56 MB). So the method should be effeicient to read them. Thanks, Siegfried -------- Original-Nachricht -------- Datum: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 11:41:27 +0100 Von: "Siegfried Gonzi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> An: chicken-users@nongnu.org Betreff: Reading binary files Hello: [posted it also on Gambit list because I am shopping for new Scheme because I cannot install Bigloo on Mac OSX Leopard] Is there an easy way in Chicken to read binary files? I have got binary files created on my desktop Linux machine with the help of IDL. The binary files are created in Fortran 77 binary format and BIG_ENDIAN mode (IDL has such a feature). I read the files from a data base with IDL and store it in big_endian Fortran 77. I'd like to read it on my Macintosh. However, the gdl clone of idl has some problems with that particular files (I scp it from my desktop machine). The first 3 numbers in the file are Fortran integer numbers which describe the 3d dimension of the array and the following numbers in the binary file are the content of the array. Or do I need a C-binding? Thanks very much, Siegfried Gonzi -- Ist Ihr Browser Vista-kompatibel? Jetzt die neuesten Browser-Versionen downloaden: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/browser -- Ist Ihr Browser Vista-kompatibel? Jetzt die neuesten Browser-Versionen downloaden: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/browser _______________________________________________ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users