Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1998 10:44:23 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: dalitz <dalitz AT ulm DOT netsurf DOT de>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Strange behavior of fread
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On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, dalitz wrote:

> 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.

As others have explained, this is due to the differences in byte order
between HP and Intel CPUs.

You can use library functions `ntohs' and `ntohl' to convert the byte
order of, respectively, 16-bit shorts and 32-bit ints.