endians

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Nov 28, 2005, Kenneth Brody wrote:
>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?

Quite good I would think.  Even SCO now has perl standard on their systems
(even though it's that communist plot, open source :-).

I could get a lot of work done on a system with python or perl, and no C
compiler if there were enough good binaries of open source software
available (e.g. Fink on OS X).

Bill
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