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From: rabbieh@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu (Harold Rabbie)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Binary data file compatibility across machines
Message-ID: <735@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu>
Date: 12 Dec 90 19:17:42 GMT
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Reply-To: rabbieh@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu (Harold Rabbie)
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Jeez, it's even worse than that.  You can get binary file incompatibility
on the SAME machine.  Try writing a file using Ultrix-C on a VAX,
then read it back using VMS-C on another VAX.  Ultrix word-aligns
structs, VMS doesn't.  All on the same VAX.