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In <453cm0$fk5@niflheim.rutgers.edu> jjwright@niflheim.rutgers.edu (John Wright) writes:

>We are trying to create a dataset which will eventually be transferred
>to many different users on many different machines (unix, mac, dos,
>etc).  We plan to create the dataset and a number of routines for
>extracting data from the dataset into various software import formats.

>The question is this, I am going to be programming in ANSI C.  I want
>to read and write the files in binary format.  Every variable or
>number that I write to the file is between 0 and 255 (one byte).  I
>plan to write all the variables (characters and integers) as
>characters with a simple fprintf statement.  We will then make the
>datasets and the ANSI C routines available to others who will
>retrieved them over the internet.  

  What about byte order problems?  Do such problems come up with
characters?  Couldn't a person use ntohs() and htons() to solve these
byte order problems that might occur in the file?

  I think I would look at read()/write() or fread()/fwrite() instead of
fprintf();


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Kent Vander Velden
graphix@iastate.edu