Hi Neil.

31-Dec-02 12:34:00, Neil Heller wrote to Darin McBride

 NH> If the numeric values are created a stored by a big endian system
 NH> while the system reading the values from mass storage is little
 NH> endian, storing the values as numerics (instead of character
 NH> representation) leads to incorrect translation.

the  ascii file could be read directly into an integer variable

 somestream >> someint;

But being moore familiar with c I personally prefer fscanf :)

 -=> Bye <=-

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