George W Gerrity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To expand on this, imagine there is a text file in some encoding on > some medium created by a little-endian machine (say a DEC Vax or a > Macintosh 68000), and it is to be accessed on a big-endian machine > (any Intel 8080 -- Pentium architecture).
This doesn't answer your main question, but: You've got your terminology backward. Architectures that store the most significant byte first, like the Vax and Macintosh, are called "big-endian," while those that store the least significant byte first, like the Intel series, are called "little-endian." -Doug Ewell Fullerton, California
