PetscViewerBinaryWrite

[Randall Mackie]

In my fortran program, I save the results of calculations in a binary file
for later use, like this:

           IF (rank == 0) THEN
             irec = irec + 1
             write(7,rec=irec) hsavx(:,ipol)
             irec = irec + 1
             write(7,rec=irec) hsavy(:,ipol)
             irec = irec + 1
             write(7,rec=irec) hsavz(:,ipol)
           END IF

And then read them back later in a similar fashion.


Is it possible to replace this with PetscViewerBinaryWrite?

There is a flag in this call called istemp, which specifies if the
data can be overwritten. I believe if you set this to false, then
with each call you would simply append the vector to the file?


My question is when you go back to re-read in these vectors, how
does PetscViewerBinaryRead know where to start? In other words,
I don't see a way to specify to start at the beginning, or rewind
the file, or maybe these Fortran concepts are not valid?

Thanks for any suggestions.

Randy

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