When I am reading a file byte by byte from the start of the file, and want to read four bytes as a long or two bytes as a short, is the first byte I read the high byte or the low byte in these cases?
I presume that because it's a file originating on Wintel - little endian - I should treat the first byte as the least significant one - right?
That's right. Least significant byte should come first in this case.
Finally, let me know if I have got this right: - Cstrings have the length of the string at the beginning of the file and have no special termination char, Pascal strings have no length specifier, but terminate with a null char.
It's actually the other way around. Cstrings are null byte terminated and Pstrings have the length in the beginning (I believe there a couple flavors, 1 and 2 byte lengths -hopefully somebody will chime in).
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