On Jul 16, 2008, at 10:34 AM, Ben Webb wrote:
> Daniel Russel wrote: >> Ick. Currently only the header is byteswapped if the machine stamp >> says the endianness is wrong. It seems like the data probably should >> be too. And then the heuristic applied. > > MRC files suck, so whatever you do will only work some of the time. > You > will also find MRC files with byte-swapped headers but not byte- > swapped > data, for example. There are also two different file types that use > 'MRC' format (some of the header fields mean entirely different > things) > but of course there is no way to reliably tell the difference. The > best > we can do is to write out correct files, and do our best to figure out > the inputs. Sure. I was just questioning if flipping the bytes in the header entirely independently from the body (as is currently done) is really the right way to go about unmangling the files. I would have thought that the two would use the same ordering most of the time. But with biologists writing code, you never know :-)