Re: How to make binary data portable?



Martin Ambuhl wrote:
> PengYu.UT@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I write the content of a in file "data" (in Sun Machine). Then I read
> > "data" in both SunOS and linux. But the result is different. Do you
> > know how to make it binary data portable.
>
> Binary numeric data is inherently not portable. If you want files to be
> portable, your best bet is to write numeric data as text. Even that
> assumes that the different implementations|platforms use a common form
> of encoding text. You will find that when transporting data from one
> implementation|platform to another you still need to consider whether
> you need to convert that data.

Is there any easy way to convert the data?

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