Re: Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] No audio on os x reading .dat files

[Josh Jennings]

Hi Eric,
Thanks for the idea. This had started to dawn on me after I wrote the
email and was on my way home ;-)
Josh

On 8/15/06, Eric Blossom <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 05:52:50PM +0200, Josh Jennings wrote:
> > Hi Michael,
> > Having thought about this a little more, I don't think this problem is
> > limited to the osx-audio.
> > I have tried this also on my osx:
> > 1) convert a complex dat file to a num file for gnuplot
> > 2) plot the num file in gnuplot
> > On os x I get zeros for all the converted points from the dat file,
> > therefore something seems corrupted.
> > When I do the same on my linux, I get a good set of converted complex
> > points in my num file and it shows up correctly in gnuplot.
> >
> > Here is a list of the files and commands I use for listening to audio
> > and converting the dat file:
>
> It's probably an "endianness problem".  The dat file is native binary
> on whatever machine it was written on.  Most likely x86, thus
> little-endian.  The PPC macs are big-endian.  Thus the problem.
>
> Anybody know if the intel macs are big or little endian?
>
> Eric