One little endian question

[Bill Campbell]

On Sun, Mar 02, 2008, Jeff Harrison wrote:
...
>Thanks.  That was very enlightening.  However, I don't
>see how that helps me directly.  I need to know from
>within a filepro application what the native byte
>order is.  How can I tell that?

Given that this isn't something that changes on a system, how
about putting it in a file someplace where it's accessible.

On a system with python, this is a one liner that will return the
value for the system.  It returns ``little'' or ``big''.

python -c 'import sys; print sys.byteorder'

Bill
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