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Article #5377Re: byte swapping and alias files
From: Syd Weinstein
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1990 23:59
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1990 23:59
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chuckp@ncr-fc.FtCollins.NCR.com (Chuck Phillips) writes:
>When I installed the 2.2 version of USENET elm on our Sun 3s, Sun 4s, and
>386i's there was a problem with the 386i not correctly reading the 'compiled'
>version of alias files produced by the 3s and 4s and vice versa. (The 3s and
>4s produced files were interchangeable.) I *assume* this is due to
>byte-ordering differences (or padding, perhaps?). Has this been fixed?
You are correct, it is due to the byte ordering of the file being
different (actually its in native mode for each machine, rather than
in network byte order)
In 2.3, a new feature has been added to allow the file to be in network
order if NFS is present on the machine.
There is no current work around for 2.2 to this problem.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!vu-vlsi!dsinc!syd From: syd@DSI.COM (Syd Weinstein) Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm Subject: Re: byte swapping and alias files Message-ID: <1990Jan11.235923.14490@DSI.COM> Date: 11 Jan 90 23:59:23 GMT References: <CHUCKP.90Jan10133529@halley.ncr-fc.FtCollins.NCR.com> Reply-To: syd@DSI.COM Distribution: comp Organization: Datacomp Systems, Inc. Huntingdon Valley, PA Lines: 19