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Re: XDR format files [message #81754]

Tue, 23 October 2012 06:40

David Fanning
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wlandsman writes:

> But XDR merely specifies the byte order (big endian but using a minimum of 4 bytes for every data type). It doesn't tell you anything about how the file is organized, or what its contents are. You need to know (or tell us) more about the file to read it.

If you really don't know anything about what is inside an
unformatted data file, then Fervent Prayer is about your
only option.

Cheers,

David

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		Re: XDR format files By: David Fanning on Tue, 23 October 2012 06:40
		Re: XDR format files By: wlandsman on Tue, 23 October 2012 06:01
		Re: XDR format files By: sid on Tue, 23 October 2012 02:29
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		Re: XDR format files By: Helder Marchetto on Wed, 24 October 2012 01:39
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