gdaPack#

Purpose#

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

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.

retcode = gdaPack("myfile.gda");

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