One little endian question

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Jeff Harrison (Mon, 3 Mar 2008 07:37:33 -0800 (PST)):

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

Well, if you're on a big-endian system, the screen will be big-endian.  I'm
not sure what swapcpu has to do with things.

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

It will fail every 256 days, the next one being 1-May-2008.  (I leave it
as an exercise to the reader to figure out why.)

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