Big and Little Endians [was: Re: Procedure How to Write a Manual!]

2009-05-22 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
On Fri, 22 May 2009 13:36:11 +, Bodvar Bjorgvinsson bod...@gmail.com wrote: Regarding the endianess, I had a problem some 13 years ago with some UNIX software that was supposed to work on Linux. It did not. I sent a query to an Icelandic guy on the Basic Linux Training list I subscribed to

RE: Big and Little Endians [was: Re: Procedure How to Write a Manual!]

2009-05-22 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
Wow! What an education for a Friday ;) I remember playing with DEC PDP-11's when I was a kid visiting my father's office. I used to play some pseudo-DD command line game and fool around with some graphics software that would draw overlapping circles fill them with a limited palette of colours

Re: Big and Little Endians [was: Re: Procedure How to Write a Manual!]

2009-05-22 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
Now I finally understand and, consequently revoke my warning words against using 'endianess' in a manual. :D What? I understand it, why shouldn't everyone else? :-/ Böðvar -- Enlightened on a Friday 2009/5/22 Jeremy H. Griffith jer...@omsys.com: On Fri, 22 May 2009 13:36:11 +, Bodvar

Big and Little Endians [was: Re: Procedure How to Write a Manual!]

2009-05-22 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
On Fri, 22 May 2009 13:36:11 +, Bodvar Bjorgvinsson wrote: >Regarding the "endianess", I had a problem some 13 years ago with some >UNIX software that was supposed to work on Linux. It did not. I sent a >query to an Icelandic guy on the "Basic Linux Training" list I >subscribed to and he

Big and Little Endians [was: Re: Procedure How to Write a Manual!]

2009-05-22 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
Wow! What an education for a Friday ;>) I remember playing with DEC PDP-11's when I was a kid visiting my father's office. I used to play some pseudo-D command line game and fool around with some graphics software that would draw overlapping circles & fill them with a limited palette of colours

Big and Little Endians [was: Re: Procedure How to Write a Manual!]

2009-05-22 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
Now I finally understand and, consequently revoke my warning words against using 'endianess' in a manual. :D What? I understand it, why shouldn't everyone else? :-/ B??var -- Enlightened on a Friday 2009/5/22 Jeremy H. Griffith : > On Fri, 22 May 2009 13:36:11 +, Bodvar Bjorgvinsson >