gdaPack

Purpose

Packs the data in a GAUSS Data Archive, removing all empty bytes and truncating the file.

Format

retcode = gdaPack(filename)
Parameters:

filename (string) – name of data file.

Returns:

retcode (scalar) –

return code, 0 if successful, otherwise one of the following error codes:

1

Null file name.

2

File open error.

3

File write error.

4

File read error.

5

Invalid data file type.

10

File contains no variables.

12

File truncate error.

14

File too large to be read on current platform.

Examples

retcode = gdaPack("myfile.gda");

Remarks

You may want to call gdaPack() after several calls to gdaUpdate() to remove all of the empty bytes from a GDA.

See also

Functions gdaUpdate(), gdaWrite()