You might be able to use the unix command dd with the argument conv=swab to
byte-swap the file before copying to NT - it used to work with Landsat data
off reel to reel tapes read by HP-UX about ten years ago!
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David Booth
Senior GIS Officer
Merseyside Information Service
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> Sent: 13 September 2000 19:26
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> Subject: MI MB reading binary data
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> Mappers,
> Using mb code, under NT, I'm trying to read binary data that was created
> on a UNIX machine which writes the data most significant byte first. My
> mb code wants to read binary data as least significant byte first. Anyone
> know how to work around this short of writing a byte exchanger? Does
> MapBasic have a patch or something available?
> Thanks,
> SI
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