"I would think that it would, but I need to make sure.
Thanks for the help."
I'm sorry. AFS doesn't do that. If I write "hello" into
a file, every machine reads it as "hello". Files aren't
typed.
But, that doesn't mean AFS is a bad idea. In fact, I would
store only one copy of the data, and figure out one way to
get the data to the application; using some serialization
or marshalling technique to get the data in and out.
In fact, there are several serialization mechanisms, to name
a few: rpcgen (to get to XDR), DCE (well, not directly but it can be used),
along with ASN.1 (BER/DER encodings). But what I thing you
want is #include to get to ntohs, or even maybe the archaic
dd conv=swab.
mts.
