I have a binary data file which is saved as microsoft update file and I need to extract the data information and show it in labview along with the waveform graph. Can someone tell me how can I approach it?

[studentgirl]

Till now I am able to get the sampling rate, time stamps and data size. Can someone tell me how can I get the time interval on the x-axis from this information.

[Ben]

Given only the information that you shared with us to date, I would quote a week to get started with no guarentee that I would succeed.

The estimate would be lower if I could know more of the details of what is in it. THings like exactly how many chanels, and the expected data I should find.

The only thing I may be able to rule at the moment is I do not think we have to worry about endianess becuase the byte counts are consisant with what I think used to be called "C stirngs" (byte count followed by the string).

Not trivial.

Ben

[Ben]

Post your code som other (not me!) will not have to re-do your work.

Ben

[studentgirl]

Thank you all for your time !! I will get more info and get back with you all. Once again, thank you very much for your attention.

[studentgirl]

Also, this is my first time dealing with data acquisition. I will get more information on the data I have. 

[altenbach]

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@studentgirl wrote:

Also, this is my first time dealing with data acquisition. I will get more information on the data I have. 

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This problem is not related to data acquisition. Maybe you could go to the tektronix website and search for file specifications.

Of course it could also be that the data was acquired in raw form from the tektronix device and saved in some other proprietary format by an external program. Do you have any information where the file originated? What is its creation date?

[studentgirl]

The file is created in 2002. So, it is really old actually.