[petsc-users] PETSc binary write format

[Sajid Ali]

I have created a file as per the specification as shown below

[sajid at xrm temp]$ cat vector.dat
00000000000100100111101101001110
00000000000000000000000000010100
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
0011111111110000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
0100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
0100000000001000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
0100000000010000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
0100000000010100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
0100000000011000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
0100000000011100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
0100000000100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
0100000000100010000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
0100000000100100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
0100000000100110000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
0100000000101000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
0100000000101010000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
0100000000101100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
0100000000101110000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
0100000000110000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
0100000000110001000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
0100000000110010000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
0100000000110011000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

How do I save it as binary so that petsc can understand it?

xxd -b takes each element as ascii 0 or 1 and converts that to binary and
neither does petsc understand the file.
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