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[Sam Couter]

Alexei Gorbatov <alexei at rses.anu.edu.au> wrote:
> I need to read a raw binary file from linux and SUN based programs.
> However, the file format is different for such files in linux and SUN.
> How can I  solve this problem?

Are you talking about the endianness being different between Intel x86
and SPARC architectures?

Search Google for "endianness" or maybe "byte swapping".

The following link refers to graphics files, but the situation is the
same with any binary data:

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/graphics/fileformats-faq/part4/section-6.html
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