Thread: Header seems byte-swapped -- byte-swap file and retry

MacSAC expects all binary SAC files to be big-endian. MacSAC's utility for byte swapping is called sactosac and is distributed with MacSAC. You probably want to use the -m option, which will byte-swap files that aren't big-endian, irrespective of the processor type you're running on.

Usage: sactosac [-vfm] [sacfile(s)]
-f - force conversion even if format is native for machine on
which program is running. Otherwise only converts files
that are in a different format than desired for current
machine.
-m - force conversion to MacSAC (big-endian, Sun) byte-order.
-v - verbose - describe what program is doing and what it is
converting.

On 15 Mar 2010, at 21:50, Shahar Kadmiel שחר קדמיאל wrote:

I have some SAC files produced by a code running on Linux (CentOS) with Xeon processors and when I try to read them from within SAC I get this message:

ERROR 1318: Header in disk file is out of date: (name of file)
Header version number is incorrect.
Header seems byte-swapped -- byte-swap file and retry

I am using MacSAC which I thought doesn't care if the file is little or big endian.
I cannot find the sacswap tool that apparently is distributed with MacSAC.

The same code running on SUN machines produces SAC files which I have no problem reading.

What to do?
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