<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Dec 5, 2018 at 1:27 PM Sajid Ali via petsc-users <<a href="mailto:petsc-users@mcs.anl.gov">petsc-users@mcs.anl.gov</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="m_-6936125009179884016markdown-here-wrapper"><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em!important">I have created a file as per the specification as shown below </p>
<pre style="font-size:0.85em;font-family:Consolas,Inconsolata,Courier,monospace;font-size:1em;line-height:1.2em;margin:1.2em 0px"><code style="font-size:0.85em;font-family:Consolas,Inconsolata,Courier,monospace;margin:0px 0.15em;padding:0px 0.3em;white-space:pre-wrap;border:1px solid rgb(234,234,234);background-color:rgb(248,248,248);border-radius:3px;display:inline;white-space:pre-wrap;overflow:auto;border-radius:3px;border:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding:0.5em 0.7em;display:block!important">[sajid@xrm temp]$ cat vector.dat
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</code></pre><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em!important">How do I save it as binary so that petsc can understand it? <br></p></div></div></blockquote><div>This is the format that PETSc can read. ex10 saves these .dat files and then reads them in. Am I missing something?</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="m_-6936125009179884016markdown-here-wrapper"><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em!important"></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em!important">xxd -b takes each element as ascii 0 or 1 and converts that to binary and neither does petsc understand the file. <br></p>
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