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>From: address@hidden >Organization: ? >Keywords: 200009052303.e85N3eN03345 McIDAS-X AREA binary AXFORM Matt, >I've been asked to see if it is possible for the McIdas program to convert >McIdas data into a simple 16bit unlabeled binary format, and if it is >possible, how to go about doing so. Thanks in advance. Yes, McIDAS can do this. Check out the AXFORM command. Here are the first few lines from the online help from this command: AXFORM - Generates multiple files from an area AXFORM sarea file <keywords> Parameters: sarea | digital area number file | output file name; 8 alphanumeric characters maximum; no extension can be specified Keywords: BAND= | band numbers for a multibanded sarea (def=first band) =ALL | all bands of sarea FLIP=YES | flip bytes (def=NO) FORMAT=I1 | output elements are 1 byte integers =I2 | output elements are 2 byte integers =I4 | output elements are 4 byte integers FTYPE=BIN | binary files (as specified in FORMAT keyword) (def) =ASC | ASCII text files (w/ 25I10 format) =BOTH | both file types MISS= | missing data value for .LAT/.LON extension files (def=65535 Hex FFFF) NAV=YES inc | produce .LAT/.LON data files with an element increment; these files contain LAT/LON stored as degrees*100 (2 bytes per element); the increment is the the number of data elements associated with each LAT/LON element (def=NO 1) UNIT= | calibration units of output files (def=cal units of sarea) =ALL | all calibration units defined by sarea This would seem to do exactly what you want. >--Matt Uller Tom Yoksas