[Gdal-dev] Failure in opening a pci disk file

[Frank Warmerdam]

N. Farah wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> using pcidskdataset.cpp, the open operation failed when trying to fetch 
> the number of bands of a .pix file. The returned number of bands was 0.  
> The pci disk file used was "contours.pix" from the remotesensing.org ftp 
> site under gdal\data\pcidsk.
> 
> I downloaded the file twice in order to avoid any possible corruption of 
> the file. Twice the opening operation failed. This occurs in this line: 
> (poDS->nBands = CPLScanLong( szTemp + 376, 8 );)

Noureddine,

To the best of my knowledge this file contains only contour vectors.  The
GDAL PCIDSK translator does not support reading vector (or any other auxilary
segment data except for the georeferencing segment).  So, I think things are
working properly.

Best regards,

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