Date: 23 Mar 1993 20:21:26 -0500 (EST) From: JMILLER AT CHESS DOT EISC DOT UTOLEDO DOT EDU Subject: Thanks and a new question To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu Organization: Edison Industrial Systems Center Thanks to all who responded to my question about O_BINARY on the Sun which is not defined since UNIX does not differentiate between text and binary files. The problem that I was having was endian in nature which brings up the question of how best to handle binary files that will be used on big and little endian systems. Byte swapping code can be written but what are the options for handling this type of problem? I apologize if this is too far afield from the stated mission here but hopefully portability issues probably are not too far out of line. Thanks in advance John Miller