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From:	ejfried AT california DOT sandia DOT gov (friedman_hill ernest j)
Message-Id:	<200108091851.LAA30345@california.sandia.gov>
Subject:	Re: fread help!
In-Reply-To:	<LJEJLCGFPDGEMKKGJEAKEEOECAAA.gpark@email.arizona.edu> from GI-HYEON
	PARK at "Aug 9, 2001 11:42:31 am"
To:	gpark AT email DOT arizona DOT edu
Date:	Thu, 9 Aug 2001 11:51:35 -0700 (PDT)
CC:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
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Well, here's a guess: the binary file was created on a SPARC Solaris
machine, and you're reading it on a Wintel machine. SPARC processors
are "big-endian" and Intel processors are "little-endian." If that's
the case, then you need to byte-swap the values as you read them
in. See, for instance, the cookbook at
http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/pbourke/dataformats/pcbinary.html .

I think GI-HYEON PARK wrote:
[Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...]
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to read binary file in WIN ME and it does not read data
> correctly.
> I tried the same code in solaris and it works fine..
> 
> Does anybody know why C program in WIN ME reads data wrong?



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