From: Weiqi Gao <weiqigao AT a DOT crl DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: big-endian and little endian binaries
Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2000 22:07:32 -0600
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Greg Wellenius wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Any ideas on how, in C++,  I might be able to write big-endian numbers
> (2-byte ints in this case) to a binary file when I'm on a machine that uses
> little-endian format?
> 
> Might there be a special way to open the output file so that numbers are
> written as big-endian?

None that I known of.  You have to switch the bytes around by hand. 
There are fancier ways of doing it, I'm sure.

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