It seems most likely (from a little googling) that your ".dcd" files are Charmm / xplor-format DCD files generated by FORTRAN. It further seems that there are various different versions and file formats associated with DCD. Unless you can find something that documents the format of the file it will be rather difficult to pull it apart. DCD seems to be related to PDB which is documented at http://www.wwpdb.org/docs.html. update PDB looks like a red herring.

Update http://local.wasp.uwa.edu.au/~pbourke/dataformats/fortran/ may help too. It describes how FORTAN packs "unformatted" files.

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In reply to Re: binary to ascii convertion by GrandFather
in thread binary to ascii convertion by pytheas

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