The **-bo** option
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

**Syntax**

**-bo**\ *record*\ [**+b**\|\ **l**]
    Select native binary format for table output.

**Description**

Select native binary format for table output. The *record* must be one or more groups with format
[*ncols*][*type*][**w**], where *ncols* is the number of consecutive data columns
of given *type* and *type* must be one of **c**, **u**, **h**, **H**, **i**, **I**,
**l**, **L**, **f**, or **d** [Default] (see :ref:`-bi types <bi_types>` for descriptions).
Force byte-swapping of a group by appending **w** at the end of the group.
For a mixed-type output record, append additional comma-separated groups (no space between groups).
The following modifiers are supported:

    - **+b**\|\ **l** to indicate that the entire data file should be written as big- or little-endian, respectively.

If *ncols* is not specified we assume that *type* applies to all columns and that *ncols* is implied by the default
output of the program. **Note**: NetCDF file output is not supported.
