Select Byte Order when Savin a DAT file

[mdelsol]

Hi,

I need to save a DAT file selecting "Low -> High" as Byte Order, but nothing works. Doesn't matter what I do It's always stored as "High -> Low"

I tried assigning the value "Low -> High" to the variables FileHdByteOrder & DataSetByteOrder but when saving the values return to "High -> Low" and are ignored.

Is there a way to do it?

Thanks in advance.
Marc.

[Brad_Turpin]

Hi Marc,

I don't think you can change that behavior.  My understanding is that DIAdem will always write Little-Endian, and the ByteOrder flag is for reading only.  What program only supports Big-Endian reading of DIAdem *.dat files?!

Brad Turpin

DIAdem Product Support Engineer

National Instruments

[mdelsol]

Hi Brad,

Thanks for the clarification.

We generate the DAT files with LabVIEW (any byte order can be selected) and then we use a custom Java application to manage a database results from the DAT files.

Sometimes we need to work on the files using DIAdem but gives us many problems as our Java application only supports Big-Endian DAT files. I think that we will have to implement that feature in our application.

Any way could be nice to select the byte order in DIAdem.

Best regards,

Marc.