Re: Opening binary data from MSVS under linux
On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:05:36 +0000
Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir@cohens.org.il> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 11:45:10AM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 06:05:08PM +0200, Micha wrote:
> > > I have a stream of unsigned long numbers saved from visual studio (2005)
> > > that I'm trying to open under linux, but the format seems to be very
> > > strange (doesn't seem to be neither big endian nor little endian). For
> > > example, the set of numbers 2, 288, 2624, 490 (or in hex 0x2 0x120,
> > > 0xA40, 0x1EA) comes out (in hex)
> > Your first 0x2 should be 0x002 to keep padding correct.
> >
> > > 02 00 00 00 20 01 00 00 40 0D 0A 00 00 EA 01 00
> > ^
> > where did the D come from?
That was what I was wondering about, but found the solution, appearing later
> > >
> > > Any idea what the format is and how to read it?
> >
> > I don't have a hex calculator handy (and I don't have time at the moment
> > to do it by hand). Please verify the decimal to hex converion.
>
I verified it several times and even rewrote the same data from linux and got
what you and I were expecting.
> Psst...
>
> printf "%04X\n" 2 288 2624 490
> 0002
> 0120
> 0A40
> 01EA
>
I am aware of that, if that's what I have seen I would have had no issues, had I?
You are assuming that I am directly stupid and not just indirectly stupid ;-)
Anyway, I found the problem. The binary data was written by mistake in text mode
under windows instead of binary mode. That's why msvs opened it correctly but
matlab and linux (and the hex editor) messed it up.
This brings me to the next question. Is there a way to open a text file
(containing binary data) from windows under linux correctly (will dos2unix do
the work for binary data or does it only convert carriage returns?
> But don't tell anybody
>
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