[fpc-pascal] Writing floating points to steams

[Michael Schnell]

On 01/13/2016 10:06 AM, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
>
> Can I ask a naive question here please: does a binary stream store 
> endianness anywhere?
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 *single* application that uses them) 
or Text-based (such as XML or "INITFILE").

-Michael
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