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any one can help me doing my project. my doubt is how to read the *.dat files generated by ecg machine through pci card i mean that generated file is already availabe as ecg.dat. i have program with me but it is showing garbage values not giving graph..how can i read data frm that ecg.dat file any can can mail me please

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It is not garbage.
It is binary data.

So, you have to find out the format in which the data is written. Usually, they will use some structures to dump data in these sort of files.

So, if you get to know those structures, then you can use the same to read data.

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