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Re: Unformatted data portability: Digital UNIX-->Windows 95 [message #11377 is a reply to message #11239]

Fri, 20 March 1998 00:00

rivers
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Registered: March 1991

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> In a more general sense, is this "almost" binary portability unique to the
> Digital UNIX/Windows95(or NT) combination or could I have written the file from
> a SUN or SGI and read it on a Windows95 Intel-based machine in the same way?

Yes, it is unique to Digital Unix/Windows 95. Both of those architectures are
little-endian and use IEEE floating point. Sun's and SGI are big-endian, so
there is no binary compatibility.

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		Unformatted data portability: Digital UNIX-->Windows 95 By: r.s.eckman on Thu, 19 March 1998 00:00
		Re: Unformatted data portability: Digital UNIX-->Windows 95 By: dors on Mon, 23 March 1998 00:00
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