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From: npm@telesoft.com (Nancy Milligan @eldest)
Newsgroups: news.software.notes
Subject: Re: sharing notes among machines with different binary representations
Summary: machine independent notes
Message-ID: <630@telesoft.com>
Date: 18 Dec 89 21:43:36 GMT
References: <7@prlb29.prlb.philips.be>
Organization: TeleSoft, San Diego, CA.
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In article <7@prlb29.prlb.philips.be>, lacroix@prlb29.prlb.philips.be (lacroix) writes:
> Has anyone upgraded the notesfile system so as to have the SAME
> notesfiles accessible BOTH on Sun 3 and 4 machines?   
> [...] 

Yes.  I'm working on this problem now.  We aren't using XDR or anything
terribly slick but are taking care of alignment by writing out each 
structure member one at a time and taking care of byte ordering on the
fly.  I'm also including code to handle machines with 2 byte words, like 
the PC, as well as 4 byte.  I plan to have a 368i, Decstation, sun2 and 
sun4 all sharing the same note files.

I don't have much time to spend on it so I don't plan on having it 
available for another month or two.  If you're interested in the source
just drop me a line and I'll arrange to get it to you after I've finished.

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telesoft!npm@ucsd.edu
Nancy P. Milligan