Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!tuvie!vmars!hp From: hp@vmars.tuwien.ac.at (Peter Holzer) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Binary data file compatibility across machines Message-ID: <2195@tuvie.UUCP> Date: 3 Dec 90 15:45:52 GMT References: <2172@tuvie> <1967@mts.ucs.UAlberta.CA> <2188@tuvie.UUCP> Sender: plank@tuvie.UUCP Lines: 17 Well, I hate to followup my own articles, but maybe I should add that in general, if you can use any standards that are widely available you should use them. Rolling your own data conversion routines is only of advantage if 1. There is no common standard between the machines you are using. 2. The problem is so small that inventing a format and writing the conversion routines is MUCH less work than familiarizing yourself with existing routines. -- | _ | Peter J. Holzer | Think of it | | |_|_) | Technical University Vienna | as evolution | | | | | Dept. for Real-Time Systems | in action! | | __/ | hp@vmars.tuwien.ac.at | Tony Rand | Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com