On Tue, Aug 18, 1998 at 02:46:11AM +0100, robbie@scot-mur.demon.co.uk wrote: > On Mon, Aug 17, 1998 at 12:10:15PM -0500, the lone gunman wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 17, 1998 at 05:32:06PM +0100, robbie@scot-mur.demon.co.uk wrote: > > > > Does that mean that "intel byte order" is the same as "host byte > > order"? > Yes. well its not on my Sun IPC :) > > The man page for mpg123 says its output with the -s switch is > > "host byte order," but the cdrecord manpage makes no mention of host > > byte order, only intel byte order, little endian and big endian, and I > > have no clue what else. > > > > Can anyone offer an equivalence table for these types? > ok > > Little endian = intel byte order = host byte order (if its an intel) > big endian = network byte order = host byte order (on 64 bit boxes)? I dunno if ALL 64 bit boxen are big endian. I know SUN systems are big-endian...I don't know about PPCs, or ALphas tho -Steve -- /* -- Stephen Carpenter <sjc@delphi.com> --- <sjc@debian.org>------------ */ E-mail "Bumper Stickers": "A FREE America or a Drug-Free America: You can't have both!" "honk if you Love Linux"
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