Date: Thu, 25 Mar 93 12:09:00 -0800
From: sabrown AT phoenix DOT ocf DOT llnl DOT gov (Stewart a Brown)
To: JMILLER AT chess DOT eisc DOT utoledo DOT edu
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Thanks and a new question


John,

There is quite a bit of work being done around the country on the problem
of portable binary data.  I have built a library (PDB) which is portable and
which manages portable binary files.  The main application has been for
scientific data, but I believe it is well suited to a wide variety of
other applications.  You can obtain the source and documentation via
anonymous FTP from phoenix.ocf.llnl.gov in pub.  PDB is one part of a
tool set for doing portable code development called PACT.  On the
phoenix you will see two compressed tar files pact*.tar.Z.  One contains
PostScript forms of the PACT manuals among which is pdb.ps.  I would
definitely encourage you to take a look at this and see if it meets your
needs.

Stewart Brown
sabrown AT phoenix DOT ocf DOT llnl DOT gov