From: Sigurdur Smarason <ssmaraso AT emerald DOT tufts DOT edu>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: newbie: endianess
Date: 10 Oct 1998 03:01:01 GMT
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Nate Eldredge <nate AT cartsys DOT com> wrote:

: You can't change the endianness, a file is just a bunch of bytes.  If
: you have multi-byte values (i.e. words) that you want to store, you must
: figure that out yourself.  The `htonl' and `ntohl' functions may be
: helpful if what you want doesn't happen to match the CPU's spec.
: -- 

so if I want to read a file that I know is stored in one endian format,
but the program is running on a CPU that is possibly the opposite the only
way I can get the actual values is by swaping the bytes after I read them
?

Siggi