endians

[Dennis Malen]

Bill,

Thanks!

We don't have python or perl on our systems.

I will refer it over to IBM for them to run it or use Ken's original code 
that had to be run through a C compiler.

Thanks again.

Dennis

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Campbell" <bill at celestial.com>
To: <filepro-list at seaslug.org>
Sent: Monday, November 28, 2005 6:34 PM
Subject: Re: endians


> On Mon, Nov 28, 2005, Kenneth Brody wrote:
>>Quoting Dennis Malen (Mon, 28 Nov 2005 16:58:43 -0500):
>>
>>> Jim,
>>>
>>> I ran it as a shell script. I don't have a C Compiler on the RISC box.
>>[...]
>>
>>It's a C program, not a shell script.  The lack of a C compiler does
>>not imply that C source code can be run as a shell script instead.
>>
>>If it's a RISC box, with the same CPU series as the RS/6000's RISC
>>processor, then it's big-endian.
>
> An easy way to determine the endianness of a machine that has a
> reasonably current version of python is with a script like this:
>
> #!/usr/bin/env python
> import sys
> print sys.byteorder
>
> Perl has something similar, but less intuitive as it seems backwards
> for little endian machines:
>
> You can get this from the command line with ``perl -V:byteorder``
> which returns byteorder='1234'; on a little-endian machine.
>
> Bill
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