Re: DRAFT RFC: Enhanced Pack/Unpack

[Tom Hughes]

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          Edwin Wiles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Endianness:
>
> /d - default, whatever your system uses normally
> /n - network
> /b - big
> /l - little
> /v - vax
>
> (??vax is sufficiently different to require it's own??  Or is this to do
> with bit order?)

VAX is either big or little. I can't remember which off the top
of my head.

You may be getting confused here with the middle-endian system
used by the PDP machines which goes 3412 or something rather than
the 1234 or 4321 that most machines use.

Tom

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