[Paraview] problem opening binary vtk: Paraview LINUX version 32 or 64 bit?

[Berk Geveci]

All legacy VTK fies (.vtk) have to be big endian (which means you have
to swap bytes when writing from Linux even if you are going to read
from Linux) and with 32 bit integers for long arrays.

-berk


On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 5:42 AM, Victor Udoewa <udwvic001 at uct.ac.za> wrote:
> 22, August 2008
>
> Hi, I had a question about writing a binary vtk file and then opening it in Paraview.
>
> When I write it in ASCII format it works. When I write it out in binary format, it doesn't.
> And I'm following the file format pdf for vtk (version 4.2). I'm writing in C on a 64-bit LINUX
> machine (Open Suse).
>
> I know the file format pdf says to watch out for Big Endian/Little Endian and integer-size (32bit vs 64 bit)
> problems. But I thought there should be no problem since I have Paraview for LINUX x86
> and assumed it was the correct bit-version.
>
> So I don't think it's a Big Endian/Little Endian problem. But I did notice that Paraview only offers
> one LINUX version download. Does anyone know if it is a 32 bit version or a 64 bit version?
> Or does anyone have a different solution?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Gentleness,
> Victor
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