endians

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Bill Campbell (Mon, 28 Nov 2005 15:34:52 -0800):
[...]
> >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.
[...]
> An easy way to determine the endianness of a machine that has a
> reasonably current version of python is with a script like this:
[...]
> Perl has something similar, but less intuitive as it seems backwards
> for little endian machines:
[...]

What are the odds that the C-less system has Perl, let alone Python?

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