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Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1998 18:15:28 -0700
From: Nate Eldredge <nate AT cartsys DOT com>
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Subject: Re: newbie: endianess
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Sigurdur Smarason wrote:
> 
> I'm trying to find a way to set the endianess for file i/o but I
> don't seem to be able to find any documentation on it. Does anybody know
> where I should go to find more info on the matter ?

You can't change the endianness, a file is just a bunch of bytes.  If
you have multi-byte values (i.e. words) that you want to store, you must
figure that out yourself.  The `htonl' and `ntohl' functions may be
helpful if what you want doesn't happen to match the CPU's spec.
-- 

Nate Eldredge
nate AT cartsys DOT com