upgrade on AIX to E-server or P-server

[Dennis Malen]

Ken,

How do I determine if  the new server is little-endian?

Dennis
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kenneth Brody" <kenbrody at bestweb.net>
To: "Dennis Malen" <dmalen at malen.com>
Cc: "FilePro Mailing List" <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 2:16 PM
Subject: Re: upgrade on AIX to E-server or P-server


> Quoting Dennis Malen (Fri, 18 Nov 2005 13:36:41 -0500):
> [...]
>> My greatest concern is the issue of endians that Ken and John raised a
>> number of months ago. Although both systems will be AIX, one uses a
>> power chip and the other is an intel chip (I believe).
> [...]
> 
> If the new system is little-endian (as opposed to the RS/6000's big-
> endian architecture), then swapcpu can be used to convert the files.
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