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Re: [IMP-dev] patches to embed

Daniel Russel wrote:

 for example, if your magic number indicates big
endian, but the data are actually stored as little endian, your output
will be messed up - but the reader works perfectly as it should do.
Currently, as far as I can tell, there is no checking of any magic number in MRCReaderWriter. The only thing which controls the byte ordering is the hack having to do with looking for excessively large (and now excessively small) voxels.
The machine stamp ('magic number') is not reliably written into all MRC files, hence the workaround to detect byte-swapped files. MRC files written out, on the other hand, should have correct machine stamps. 

	Ben
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