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Re: Determining machine endian-ness [message #12218 is a reply to message #12161]

Mon, 06 July 1998 00:00

Kelly Dean
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Registered: March 1997

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That is why my prefer method is to check a number in the input data field. I only
use !VERSION if I know what machines and version of IDL I am writing for.

Kelly

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. However,
>
> This can't be a good idea, as IDL runs under Linux and FreeBSD on Intel boxes.
>
> -- Charles Allen -- callen@bga.com --

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