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

6       utrip  -  strips  record  length information from a Fortran unformatted
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SYNOPSIS

10       ustrip [ -x ] [ filename ]
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DESCRIPTION

13       ustrip reads an file created with Fortran's unformatted IO  and  strips
14       the  record size flags which pad each record. This is mainly of use for
15       reading binary data into a C program.
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17       The -x option instructs ustrip to byte swap the record flags,  allowing
18       big  endian  data  to  be  examined on a little endian machine, and vis
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21       The file name may be specified on the command line, otherwise the  data
22       will be read in from the standard input and written to standard output.
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NOTE

25       The error message
26            uread: data larger than file length
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28       the platform uread is being run on. Try using the -x  flag  to  see  if
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SEE ALSO

32       uswap(1), uread(1)
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AUTHOR

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