Another newbie question

Grant Edwards ge at nowhere.none
Mon Oct 2 13:08:40 EDT 2000


In article <39D80C28.170267D5 at pehr.net>, pehr anderson wrote:

>You have three main options for storing data in files:
>
>#3. Use some wierdo unspecified binary format that will cause
>    everybody to hate you forever.

Don't forget to design things so that if you move the file to a
different-endian machine the program still runs and gives
incorrect results (but make sure the incorrect results are
plausible -- that's the tricky part).

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