Sorry -- I am still a little punchy from a high fever, I means to say: > Personally I would agree with Harry that an ascii translation of binary > header would be easier to work with in checking the format. That could > appear before the image without the risk of confusion. ===================================================== Herbert J. Bernstein, Professor of Computer Science Dowling College, Kramer Science Center, KSC 121 Idle Hour Blvd, Oakdale, NY, 11769 +1-631-244-3035 yaya@dowling.edu ===================================================== On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, Herbert J. Bernstein wrote: > One important point -- while, strictly speaking, there should be no harm > in adding additional binary sections anywhere in a CBF, I believe people > have gotten used to finding the image as the first (and in all current > cases as the only) binary section. So, it might be a good idea to put > such supplemental binary header binary sections after the image, so that > packages that are looking for the image don't get confused. > > Personally I would agree with Harry that an ascii translation of binary > header would be easier to work with in checking the format. That could > appear before the image with the risk of confusion. > > Regards, > Herbert > ===================================================== > Herbert J. Bernstein, Professor of Computer Science > Dowling College, Kramer Science Center, KSC 121 > Idle Hour Blvd, Oakdale, NY, 11769 > > +1-631-244-3035 > yaya@dowling.edu > ===================================================== > > On Mon, 24 Sep 2007, harry powell wrote: > > > Hi > > > > I don't understand why you'd want to add the binary header, to be > > honest. I can see why you might want to have the contents of the > > header as an ASCII comment section - but I think this should just be > > a check while developing the file format. > > > > Could you elaborate why you'd want it there? > > > > > Hello everyone, > > > > > > We here would, in fact, like to add our binary header to the CBF file. > > > Should that just go into an additional binary section, with MIME > > > header > > > and all of that? If so, is there any recommendation as to how we can > > > refer to it in the CIF headers so that I can distinguish between the > > > binary image data and our binary header data? My inclination is to > > > add > > > the ".header_convention" column to my "_array_data" loop and fill > > > it in > > > with "RAY_1.0" or something like that for the our binary header and > > > with > > > an empty value "" for the image data. > > > > > > e.g. : > > > > > > loop_ > > > _array_data.array_id > > > _array_data.binary_id > > > _array_data.header_convention > > > _array_data.data > > > ARRAY1 1 RAY_1.0 > > > ; > > > --CIF-BINARY-FORMAT-SECTION-- > > > <<MIME header for Rayonix binary header dump>> > > > <<Rayonix binary header dump>> > > > --CIF-BINARY-FORMAT-SECTION---- > > > ; > > > ARRAY2 2 > > > ; > > > --CIF-BINARY-FORMAT-SECTION-- > > > <<MIME header for image binary data>> > > > <<Image binary data>> > > > --CIF-BINARY-FORMAT-SECTION---- > > > ; > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Regards, > > > > > > -- > > > Justin Anderson Rayonix, LLC (Formerly Mar USA) > > > Software Engineer justin@rayonix.com > > > 1880 Oak Ave. Ste. 120 Evanston, IL, USA 60201 > > > 877.627.9729 847.869.1548 > > > _______________________________________________ > > > imgcif-l mailing list > > > imgcif-l@iucr.org > > > http://scripts.iucr.org/mailman/listinfo/imgcif-l > > > > Harry > > -- > > Dr Harry Powell, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, MRC Centre, > > Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 2QH > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > imgcif-l mailing list > > imgcif-l@iucr.org > > http://scripts.iucr.org/mailman/listinfo/imgcif-l > > > _______________________________________________ > imgcif-l mailing list > imgcif-l@iucr.org > http://scripts.iucr.org/mailman/listinfo/imgcif-l > _______________________________________________ imgcif-l mailing list imgcif-l@iucr.org http://scripts.iucr.org/mailman/listinfo/imgcif-l
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