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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Elena Pourmal The HDF Group http://hdfgroup.org 1800 So. Oak St., Suite 203, Champaign IL 61820 217.531.6112 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Hdf-forum is for HDF software users discussion. > [email protected] > http://mail.lists.hdfgroup.org/mailman/listinfo/hdf-forum_lists.hdfgroup.org
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