From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Thu Feb 5 22:14:39 2004 Subject: Re: Tip for loading Excel Spreadsheet into Octave on Mac From: "John W. Eaton" To: "Henry F. Mollet" Cc: Octave_post Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 22:12:49 -0600 On 5-Feb-2004, Henry F. Mollet wrote: | 4. Possible future use of BBEdit because it allows opening of a file in | Hexdump (see below for first block). I have binary Systat file which I'd | like to convert directly into octave data files one day. I was hoping that | if I could look inside of a Systat binary file and inside of an Octave | binary file, I might be able to "doctor" the Systat binary file so that | Octave would be able to load (open) it. Is the Systat data file format published somewhere? Then perhaps writing something that could read the Systat file and translate it to something useful would be the way to go. | However, you explained in a recent post why I cannot load binary files on my | Mac, so there was no point even trying to doctor my Systat binary files: | | > From other posts, I seem to remember that you are using Mac OS X. | > Perhaps the problem is due to an old bug in the C or C++ library on | > that system that causes binary reads to report the wrong number of | > bytes or the wrong status at EOF (I can't remember the precise details | > of the bug, just that there was one -- maybe someone else remembers | > more can provide additional information). Presumably this bug will be fixed (I was under the impression that it had, in a more recent version of the C or C++ libraries for OS X). jwe ------------------------------------------------------------- Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL. Octave's home on the web: http://www.octave.org How to fund new projects: http://www.octave.org/funding.html Subscription information: http://www.octave.org/archive.html -------------------------------------------------------------