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Silicon Graphics Iris workstation, using C

        /* declare the test record as a 24-element byte array */
        char testrec[24];

        /* MAGIC: we load in the magic number */
        testrec[0] = 0x47 ;
        testrec[1] = 0xf3 ;
        testrec[2] = 0x46 ;
        testrec[3] = 0xe3 ;

        /* MACHID: SGI Unix workstation */
        testrec[4] = 2 ;

        /* NUMOBJECTS: We want to write out one object, so 
           this can be either 0 or 1 */
        testrec[5] = 0 ;

        /* SPECA: We are using ASCII characters, and SGIs are 
           big-endian machines */
        testrec[6] = 0x01 ;

        /* RESERVED1 */
        testrec[7] = 0 ;

        /* RECHDR: This is a C program using normal I/O 
           functions, so the file will be a pure stream of 
           bytes */
        testrec[8] = 1 ;

        /* RESERVED2 */
        testrec[9] = 0 ;

        /* SPECB: This is C, so we are using row-major array 
           ordering, and our array indices start with zero */
        testrec[10] = 0x00 ;

        /* SLEN: a short integer is 16 bits on an SGI */
        testrec[11] = 16;

        /* LLEN: a long integer is 32 bits */
        testrec[12] = 32;

        /* FLEN: a floating-point number is 32 bits */
        testrec[13] = 32;
        /* DLEN: a double precision floating-point number is 
           64 bits */
        testrec[14] = 64;

        /* FPFORM: SGI machines use IEEE floating-point
           formats */
        testrec[15] = 0x11;

        /* RESERVED3 */
        testrec[16] = 0 ;
        /* RESERVED4 */
        testrec[17] = 0 ;
        /* RESERVED5 */
        testrec[18] = 0 ;
        /* RESERVED6 */
        testrec[19] = 0 ;
        /* RESERVED7 */
        testrec[20] = 0 ;
        /* RESERVED8 */
        testrec[21] = 0 ;
        /* RESERVED9 */
        testrec[22] = 0 ;
        /* RESERVED10 */
        testrec[23] = 0 ;

        /* now write out the record */
        (void) fwrite( testrec, sizeof(char), 24, outfile);



Eric Nash 2003-09-25