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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 01/13/2016 10:06 AM, Mark Morgan
Lloyd wrote:<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:n75422$aou$1@pye-srv-01.telemetry.co.uk"
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Can I ask a naive question here please: does a binary stream store
endianness anywhere?<br>
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AFAIK, generally, such binary (file-, Network transfer, ....)
formats are not supposed to be "natively" portable. To be portable
they should be either propriety (defined by the <b>single</b>
application that uses them) or Text-based (such as XML or
"INITFILE"). <br>
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-Michael<br>
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