Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: dbz with heterogeneous architectures
Message-ID: <1990Nov17.233101.26822@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1990Nov16.192640.1881@opusc.csd.scarolina.edu>
Date: Sat, 17 Nov 90 23:31:01 GMT

In article <1990Nov16.192640.1881@opusc.csd.scarolina.edu> ken@opusc.csd.scarolina.edu (Ken Sallenger) writes:
>I'd like to offload some of the news processing to a big beefy Sun
>with lots of RAM.  I've been poking around the C distribution to
>see whether there's a way to have both architectures share the
>DBZ history database.  So far, though, I haven't succeeded in
>creating one that both can read.

I'm not sure why that would be happening.  If you are using a current
C News, the dbz database format is byte-order independent by design,
and the regression test checks this.  There should be no problem in
sharing a dbz database across two architectures that agree on the
size of a "long" and the structure of a file offset.

(If your dbz is the old one from contrib, your C News is out of date.)
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