[Tfug] Byte Order

[Tim Ottinger]

there are a bunch of functions for converting between "natural" and "net
order".

Look up ntoi, iton, etc.

Also take a gander at
http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?joel.3.413013.37, which might
be somewhat useful to you.  Or mildly entertaining.

tim

On 11/15/06, Jim Secan <jim at nwra.com> wrote:
>
> I know I can look this up somewhere, but SOMEONE out there probably knows
> this off the top - is there is difference in byte ordering for short
> integers between a Solaris/Sun system and a Linux/PC system?  I'm trying
> to
> read files taken from 9-track tapes built on an old PR1ME minicomputer
> using software written to work on a Sun/Solaris system and it ain't
> working
> on Linux/PC.  Looks like a byte order problem.
>
> Jim
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