It's just a cleaner re-write of the petsc output that I can understand (which I intend to modify from python in the future). I tried removing the new line characters but that didn't work either.
Looking at the first line of the binary dump from petsc output : [sajid at xrm <https://lists.mcs.anl.gov/mailman/listinfo/petsc-users> temp]$ xxd -b vector.dat 0000000: 00000000 00010010 01111011 01001110 00000000 00000000 ..{N.. The first 4 bytes combine to give *00000000000100100111101101001110* Which is int-32 representation of VEC_FILE_CLASSID and this is the first line of my file as well. Thank You, Sajid Ali Applied Physics Northwestern University
