petsc-3.3-p7 2013-05-11

PetscViewerBinaryGetSkipHeader

checks whether to write a header with size information on output, or just raw data

#include "petscsys.h"   
PetscErrorCode PetscViewerBinaryGetSkipHeader(PetscViewer viewer,PetscBool  *skip)

Not Collective

viewer -PetscViewer context, obtained from PetscViewerBinaryOpen()

skip -PETSC_TRUE means do not write header

Notes: This must be called after PetscViewerSetType()

Returns false for PETSCSOCKETVIEWER, you cannot skip the header for it.