Lex Spoon wrote:
> 
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> But why would knowing the machine's ordering matter, unless you are
> doing primitives?  Maybe if you post a higher-level view of what you are
> trying to do, someone will have a more helpful response.  I tend to like
> the fact that I don't have to think about endianness :)

In the application I am working on, there is an endianness flag <B,b>
that
is used to identify the nature of a subsequent binary stream. I have not
gotten to
code it yet, but when I do I will need know. Yes?


John-Reed Maffeo
Mesa, AZ