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Re: Was a file opened with /Swap_if_little_endian ? [message #82609]

Thu, 03 January 2013 20:31

Craig Markwardt
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Registered: November 1996

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On Thursday, January 3, 2013 10:47:46 PM UTC-5, wlandsman wrote:
> But is there any way to get this information programmatically? The likely suspects FSTAT() and FILE_INFO() don't seem to give this information. So my only solution right now is to capture the output of "HELP,/FILES" and parse it.

If your file is SEEKable, then you can read a 4-byte long then rewind and read the same as 4 individual bytes. By comparing the two results, you should be able to see if swapping is occurring.

Craig

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