The ingested data file contains the data that has been saved from the ingest program. This is used as the input to several WXP programs including decoders, parsers and some display programs. The information is laid out in the file by product. The WXP ingestor strips control characters before saving to disk. The header remains the same but the product content is the original binary data.
Binary mode is triggered automatically if the ingestor sees GRIB or BUFR data.