Before you read data from a binary file, you have to know whether it contains single-precision or double-precision values and whether the file uses paddings.

How to investigate the file in order to know how it is organized is described in the page below.

• Figuring out a data file's format

Once you know how the file is organized you can read it. SmileLab also lets you write binary data files. See the page below about the commands read binary and write binary.

• Reading and writing binary data