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From: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Endian wars
Message-ID: <988@auspex.UUCP>
Date: 10 Feb 89 09:00:49 GMT
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 >The SUN's XDR library has already provided us with a common interchange
 >file format.  It probably does not address 64 bit integers.

Nope, it does.  The datatype names are "hyper" and "unsigned hyper".

XDR is big-endian, BTW.  (So is the 68K; this may or may not be a
coincidence :-).)