On Wed, Dec 5, 2018 at 1:27 PM Sajid Ali via petsc-users < petsc-users@mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> I have created a file as per the specification as shown below > > [sajid@xrm temp]$ cat vector.dat > 00000000000100100111101101001110 > 00000000000000000000000000010100 > 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 > 0011111111110000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 > 0100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 > 0100000000001000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 > 0100000000010000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 > 0100000000010100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 > 0100000000011000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 > 0100000000011100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 > 0100000000100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 > 0100000000100010000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 > 0100000000100100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 > 0100000000100110000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 > 0100000000101000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 > 0100000000101010000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 > 0100000000101100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 > 0100000000101110000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 > 0100000000110000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 > 0100000000110001000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 > 0100000000110010000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 > 0100000000110011000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 > > How do I save it as binary so that petsc can understand it? > This is the format that PETSc can read. ex10 saves these .dat files and then reads them in. Am I missing something? > xxd -b takes each element as ascii 0 or 1 and converts that to binary and > neither does petsc understand the file. >