From: Chris Holmes <cholmes AT surfsouth DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: From Bytes to Int and Char
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 11:13:01 -0400
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Endlisnis wrote:
> 
> >   (sorry... have to say it) They aren't endians, they're native
> > arrangements.  Please, be PC with your PC.  <grin>
> 
>     I don't know what you are talking about.   The word endian means the native
> order of bytes in a multibyte contiguous variable type.

  <shakes head> It was a PUN, a PUN.  endian is approximately equal to
Indian... native arrangement/american.  <sigh>  
  Does no one appreciate horrible geek humor anymore?  

>     I don't see how, because it's doing the exact same thing in a more obsure way.
> I was trying to say that if the file was stored on a big-endian machine, then using
> a little-endian like DJGPP to read the file in the way I mentioned wouldn't work.

  The difference is that you're telling the compiler to do the magic
here, so if you compiled it on a big-endian compiler, then it should 
do it right.  I'm just trying to save some time spent recoding.

  Chris