One little endian question

[Jeff Harrison]

--- Kenneth Brody <kenbrody at bestweb.net> wrote:

> Quoting Jeff Harrison (Sun, 2 Mar 2008 13:19:37
> -0800 (PST)):
> 
> > --- "Brian K. White" <brian at aljex.com> wrote:
> [...]
> >> ... I dare say none of
> >> us has any endianness tests in our normal apps
> and
> >> we survived this long :)
> >
> > Yes, apparently I am going where no man has gone
> > before :-)
> 
> Perhaps no _man_, but Laura certainly did with her
> screen painter.
> 

Good thing I worded it that way then :-)  Its
old-school as I believe with the movies they changed
it to "where no _one_ has gone before."

> Of course, she has the advantage of reading a screen
> file, which has
> a known "magic number" at the start of the file
> header.  If you don't
> mind a little bit of overhead, you could read the
> header of a known
> screen (you could use @FI and @SN) to determine the
> byte order.  Do
> you have a copy of her toolkit?
> 
[snip]

Good point - for some reason I was thinking that I
couldn't rely on a format file that I provided - but
of course anyone running big-endian will need to run
swap-cpu anyway - so that will work.

But, looking at a new @cd should work too, right?

Jeff Harrison
jeffaharrison at yahoo.com

Author of JHExport and JHImport.  The fastest and
easiest ways to generate filepro exports and imports.


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