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Re: CodeWarrior

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From: Hamish Moffatt
Date: Thu, 06 Aug 1998 00:00
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In rmit.comp.sys.mac Luke Walshe <lw@yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au> wrote:
> Also don't forget that Mac is bigended.  So when you are internalising 
> PC shorts,ints and longs you have to swap bytes.

That's ok, the files I am having trouble with are byte-oriented anyway.
They even use variable-length numbers by only using 7 bits and using the
8th to indicate whether it is the final byte or not.


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Date: 1998/08/06
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