upgrade on AIX to E-server or P-server

[Dennis Malen]

The server has not been delivered yet!!!!

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jean-Pierre A. Radley" <appl at jpr.com>
To: "FilePro Mailing List" <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 4:53 PM
Subject: Re: upgrade on AIX to E-server or P-server


> Dennis Malen propounded (on Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 04:40:20PM -0500):
> | From: "Kenneth Brody" <kenbrody at bestweb.net>
> | >Quoting Dennis Malen (Fri, 18 Nov 2005 15:16:46 -0500):
> | >>How do I determine if  the new server is little-endian?
> | >[...]
> | >>> 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.
> | >
> | >One way is to determine which CPU the system uses, and the find out
> | >what endedness that chip uses.
> | >
> | >Another would be to test it directly:
> | >
> | >#include <stdio.h>
> | >main()
> | >   {
> | >   long l = 0x11223344;
> | >   char *pt = (char *)&l;
> | >   printf("%02x %02x %02x %02x\n",pt[0],pt[1],pt[2],pt[3]);
> | >   }
> | >
> | >If you get "11 22 33 44", it's big-endian.  If you get "44 33 22 11",
> | >it's little-endian.  (If you get "33 44 11 22", it's a PDP-11.)
> |
> | I'll e-mail this to my supplier and have them do it.
>
> 1) Why don't you test it yourself?
> 2) And if you don't, why does the filePro list need to know that?
>
> -- 
> JP
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