At 05:30 PM 6/11/02 -0600, bbcannon wrote:
>My initial try with "V" did not work, but I'm going to
>keep pecking at it.  If a double is represented in C with
>32 bits...

I'm assuming that.  It may not always be true.  I've been lead to 
understand that some compilers for 64bit processors consider a double to be 
64 bit.


>..., then "V" makes sense to me.
>However, I am working on a networked Sun Station, so I think I will try
>"N" also.  I have no idea what a big-endian and little-endian is.

It relates to the way numbers are represented in the hardware of your 
computer.  Multi-byte values, such as 256, can be stored as (expressed in hex)
00 01 (little endian) or 01 00 (big endian).


>err...YMMV?

Your Mileage May Vary.


Liz

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