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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Binary File Compatibility Between ULTRIX and Other UNIX Systems
Message-ID: <15736@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 6 Apr 91 01:02:09 GMT
References: <26467@adm.brl.mil>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <26467@adm.brl.mil> siggins@kodak.com (Richard Siggins, B-150B, Eastman Chemical Company Research, X- 3762) writes:
>As a new UNIX systems person I was dismayed to discover that floating point and
>integer numbers are not stored in the same format in a binary file on ULTRIX vs
>most other UNIX systems.

This has nothing to do with Ultrix or Unix -- binary data files are inherently
unportable.  Why not convert them to text then transport that.