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From: egw.weakm@p3.lanl.gov (Eric Wasserman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Import Binary Date File from PC
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Date: 7 Feb 91 00:54:06 GMT
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References:<21958@duke.cs.duke.edu> <1991Feb6.102550.10982@irisa.fr>

In article <1991Feb6.102550.10982@irisa.fr> boissier@irisa.fr (franck 
boissiere) writes:
> From article <21958@duke.cs.duke.edu>, by fang@physics.phy.duke.edu 
(Fang Zhong):
> > 
> >       I use a PC to automate my experiment. I store my data on the PC 
in
> > binary format as:
> > 
> > 
> >>      fp = fopen(filename, "ab"); 
> >>              fwrite(&data, sizeof(float), 1,fp); 
> >>      fclose(fp);
> > 
> > I can use:
> > 
> >>      fread(&data, sizeof(float), 1, fp);
> > 
> > to read the data back on PC.  I plot my data with Igor on Mac. 
However, if...

Igor version 1.24 includes an XOP called GBLoadWave (in the 'Sample XOPs' 
folder,
 I think) which has an option for swapping bytes which will let you read 
in PC binary
files. This will at least get your data into Igor.



Eric
egw.weakm@p3.lanl.gov