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Re: [open-cobol-list] variable record size sequential files
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Keisuke Nishida |
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Re: [open-cobol-list] variable record size sequential files |
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Tue May 25 10:45:10 2004 |
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At Mon, 24 May 2004 21:54:52 -0400 (EDT),
David Korn wrote:
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> I beleive that the four byte size field in front of each
> record that is read or written should be a big endian
> followed by to 0 bytes.
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> It appears to be little endian on Linux. Is this intentional?
> It this an option?
I don't know what other compilers do about this. At least,
the exact file format is not part of the standard.
It would be a good idea if we had an option for compatibility.
Could you send me a patch or a pointer to the reference?
Keisuke