1UREAD(1)                    General Commands Manual                   UREAD(1)
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NAME

6       uread - reads a Fortran unformatted file
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SYNOPSIS

9       uread [ -x ] [ filename ]
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DESCRIPTION

12       uread  reads an file created with Fortran's unformatted IO. The size of
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16              *2     integer*2, logical*2 data
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18              *4     integer, logical, real data
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20              *8     integer*8, real*8, double precision, complex data
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22              *16    real*16, extended precision, double complex data
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24       In addition, data marked with char contains only writable ASCII charac‐
25       ters and white space, and so is likely to be character data.
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27       The -x option instructs uread to  byte  swap  the  input  record  data,
28       allowing big endian data to be examined on a little endian machine, and
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31       The file name may be specified on the command line, otherwise the  data
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NOTE

35       The error message
36            uread: data larger than file length
37       often indicates that the file being read has the opposite byte "sex" to
38       the platform uread is being run on. Try using the -x  flag  to  see  if
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SEE ALSO

42       ustrip(1), uswap(1)
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AUTHOR

45       S.E. Norris s.norris@auckland.ac.nz
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