Mike,

You may check that -o created an ascii file.

Please use -b option with LE or BE as shown

h5dump -d /H -b LE -o H.bin dendrite_0008.h5
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On Jan 21, 2014, at 10:46 AM, Michael Jackson <[email protected]> 
wrote:

> I have an HDF5 data file that has a single data set in it call "phi" which 
> has dimensions 350x350x450 and is 32 bit float values. I am trying to use 
> H5Dump to dump the data as a binary file. 
> 
> 507:[mjackson@Mine:MURI_Dendrite_Dataset]$ h5dump  -d /H -o H.bin 
> dendrite_0008.h5 
> HDF5 "dendrite_0008.h5" {
> DATASET "/H" {
>   DATATYPE  H5T_IEEE_F32LE
>   DATASPACE  SIMPLE { ( 350, 350, 450 ) / ( 350, 350, 450 ) }
>   DATA {
>   }
> }
> }
> 
> The resulting file size is 625,492,563 bytes which is way too large. It 
> should be 220,500,000 bytes. I am sure this is a "user error" but I can not 
> see what i am doing wrong. Any help would be great. The original file size is 
> about 220MB (which seems correct).
> 
> Thanks
> Mike Jackson
> 
> 
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