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In article <WARREN.91Feb19143825@rainbow.atmos.washington.edu> warren@atmos.washington.edu (David Warren) writes:
>Are we discussing VAX ULTRIX or risc ULTRIX. If your ULTRIX is on a
>DECstation, you should be able to just reverse the byte order. (I
>believe that NFS will even do it for you automatically). If, however,
>you ULTRIX is on VAX architecture you will need to also convert
>between VAX and IEEE floating point. On a DECstation there are the
>routines ftoi, itof, dtoi, itod, gtoi and itog that take care of this. I
>have also seen programs that run under VMS to do the same things.
>There is probably someone out there that already has them under SUNOS.

I suspect the cleanest solution to your problem is to use XDR.  XDR is
avaliable, documented and supported on the Sun.  XDR is available and
undocumented on Ultrix.  I have no idea if DEC is supporting its use
or not.  Since NCS seems to be lacking this feature (A general purpose,
standalone data conversion facility), it would be in DEC's interest to
to support XDR (which probably means they won't).

RPC/XDR is in the public domain and is floating around the net.  A copy of
an implementation lives on uunet.uu.net, available for anonymous FTP.

regards,
fletcher

Fletcher Kittredge
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