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Re: BINARY FILES

mohamed_nur@my-deja.com wrote:
> I've been dealing with binary files and every case i had to know before
> hand the dimensions of the array to setup an IDL variable of the said
> dimesions and read the unformatted data into.
> 
> But is it possible or is there a method (in IDL 5.2/5.3) to read it in
> with no knowledge of the dimensions of the array.

The following may be of interest:
http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/~gumley/binarytools.html

Cheers,
Liam.
http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/~gumley