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From: sjs@spectral.ctt.bellcore.com (Stan Switzer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: binary data files
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Date: 2 May 89 13:19:16 GMT
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Another alternative definitely worth looking into is Sun's XDR.  XDR
is available via anonymous FTP from titan.rice.edu (the sun-spots
archives) in "sun-source/rpcsrc.*.*".  If you have NFS you already
have XDR.

XDR is an efficient and rather clever scheme for producing flat,
binary, machine-independent representations of arbitrary C data
structures.  It easily allows for pointer chasing, memory allocation,
unions.

Check it out.

Stan Switzer  sjs@ctt.bellcore.com