Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!occrsh!uokmax!apple!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!jarthur!nntp-server.caltech.edu!seismo.gps.caltech.edu!bruce From: bruce@seismo.gps.caltech.edu (Bruce Worden) Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer Subject: Re: Meiko/Sun svcs daemon Keywords: Meiko, svcsd, byte order Message-ID: <1990Sep11.175623.12374@laguna.ccsf.caltech.edu> Date: 11 Sep 90 17:56:23 GMT References: Sender: bruce@seismo.gps.caltech.edu Organization: California Institute of Technology, CA Lines: 14 In article Noel.Hardy@newcastle.ac.uk writes: > [ svcsd hangs sometimes ] I have never had this problem on our unit, but if I did I would harass Meiko until they fixed it. I would recommend that you do so, too. > [ thinks the byte order is reversed from the Sun host ] Yes, the byte order is different. Meiko supports the xdr functions (as does Sun) which is the (supposedly) portable way of dealing with the issue. There is no easy way around it. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- C. Bruce Worden bruce@seismo.gps.caltech.edu 252-21 Seismological Laboratory, Caltech, Pasadena, CA 91125