Read/Convert from binary ibm 4-byte floating point (offtopic)

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Hi.

I know that it is not a gmt question but I think that there any many geophtysicst that could help me.

I extracted the values from a single trace of a segy file. The data is in binary ibm 4-bye floating point (format code 1). How could I convert it to numbers? Do you know any software that I could use?

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What is binary ibm?

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I mean 4-byte IBM floating-point (or IBM single precision floating point).

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Have you tried GMT and asking to swap the bytes (read a BigEndian)?

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No, it doesn’t work.

I try gmt convert trace.b -bi1f+b and the numbers are slightly different.

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Is this ASCII vs EBCDIC conversion?

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I think it is something different.

On Linux, I use ibm2float (from seismic unix) conversion, and them gmt convert -bi1f