From:	Erwann ABALEA <eabalea AT certplus DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: Strange behavior of fread
Date:	Tue, 1 Dec 1998 01:17:24 +0100
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On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, dalitz wrote:

> I observed an unexpected behavior of fread.
> It seems to me that the order of two subsequent bytes
> is swapped in the buffer when the fread function reads items of 
> two bytes (short int). I really don't understand what's going
> on.

Didn't you know things like little endian and big endian?

a PC is big endian, and I'm pretty sure that the HP-PA architecture works
the other way...

Like someone else replied, try to read your file one byte at a time, or a
bunch of bytes in an array of unsigned chars, and build your own integers
by yourself...

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Erwann ABALEA
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