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Re: Determining machine endian-ness [message #12211 is a reply to message #12161]

Wed, 08 July 1998 00:00

reuss
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Registered: June 1997

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In article <callen-0207982206350001@192.168.22.98>, callen@bga.com (Charles Allen) wrote:
>> With IDL 4.0+, !VERSION tells you if your operating system is UNIX or WIN32. I
>> would use this to determine if I need to byte-swap on some occassions.
>
> This can't be a good idea, as IDL runs under Linux and FreeBSD on Intel boxes.

What about !version.arch?

Matthias

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