Hi guys, <div><br></div><div>I use VecView() in conjunction with <a name="PetscViewerBinaryOpen" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><h1 style="display:inline!important"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="1">PetscViewerBinaryOpen()</font></h1>
</a></div><div><a name="PetscViewerBinaryOpen" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><h1 style="display:inline!important"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="1">to write the binary data associated with a 3D data obtained from DA structured arrays. </font></h1>
</a></div><div><a name="PetscViewerBinaryOpen" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><h1 style="display:inline!important"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="1">I noticed that on my machine, the size of the file is 8 bytes bigger than the size of the data. </font></h1>
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</span></h1></a></div><div><a name="PetscViewerBinaryOpen" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><h1 style="display:inline!important"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-weight:normal;font-size:small">best </span></h1>
</a></div><div><a name="PetscViewerBinaryOpen" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><h1 style="display:inline!important"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-weight:normal;font-size:small">Mohamad</span></h1>
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