External data representation (Was: no subject)

[Brett Worth]

On Fri, 23 Nov 2001, Alexei Gorbatov wrote:

> I need to read a raw binary file from linux and SUN based programs.

Alexei,

You might find useful information on the xdr man page.  This is used by RPC
programs to communicate between unlike hardware.  I bet there's a million
ways to do the same thing but xdr is the only one I've looked at.

Or you could use ASCII instead of binary in your file format...

Brett

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