Hi Pascal.

18-Jan-04 15:30:28, Pascal Schmidt wrote to Jasen Betts


 PS> Hi Jasen! :-)

 JB>> The other is to have the software detect the endianness of the
 JB>> data file and set a flag which youv'e implemented to switch the
 JB>> byte-swapping on or off at runtime.

 PS> That is usually easy to do under one condition: there needs to be
 PS> at least one magic value in the data file which can be used to
 PS> detect endianness. Otherwise, if there is no suitable value (at a
 PS> fixed position), then one needs to read the data and carefully
 PS> look at it to see whether it might be byte-swapped. Depends on the
 PS> data whether this is hard or easy. If it's just arbitrary numbers,
 PS> there is no way to do it.

NTFS has some interestingh file attributes, but yeah, if you can rely on a
key number being near the start of the file it makes life easier
PS> Ciao Pascal



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