$Id: Readme.txt 791 2009-06-16 11:01:02Z lendl $

This directory contains various miniSEED examples useful for (unit-) testing
the "integer" codec.


 Note: All ASCII dumps are in the same format as the GIPPtools 'edl2ascii'
       utility will produce.


Test 001 -- miniSEED file created by 'libmseed'
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  A series of 6000 samples / 6 records in "32 bit integer" encoding. The
  miniSEED file was created with the 'msrepack' tool by Chad Trabant (IRIS DMC)
  from a Steim-1 encoded input file.
  
  Possible pitfall:
  - The integer codec, unlike the Steim family of codecs, does not depend
    on aligning data to 64 byte long "frames". A consequence is, that the 
    "begin-of-data" is already at offset 56 bytes and not at the usual (for 
    Steim encoding) 64 byte offset. This is possible as there is only a single
    blockette #1000 in the record.
     
  001-int32.mseed      miniSEED file (32 bit integer encoded)
  001-int32.header     ASCII dump of the header
  001-int32.data.gz    ASCII dump of the sample values (gzipped)

  Note:  To create the miniSEED file the following command was used:

           msrepack -v -t -E 3  -o 001-int32.mseed  input.mseed


