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- From: seismo!hadron!jsdy@sally.utexas.edu (Joseph S. D. Yao)
- Date: 10 Jan 87 02:20:18 GMT
- Reply-To: jsdy@hadron.UUCP (Joseph S. D. Yao)
- Organization: Hadron, Inc., Fairfax, VA
-
- In article <6783@ut-sally.UUCP> hoptoad!gnu@lll-crg.arpa (John Gilmore) writes:
- >I suggest that "cpio" be excluded. Maybe they'll stop distributing
- >System V on byte-order-dependent cpio tapes if it becomes non-standard.
- >Volume-Number: Volume 9, Number 7
-
- As I understand it, cpio as it currently stands is ASCII (not binary),
- in a perfectly understandable format (reasonable byte-by-byte order)
- on magnetic tape or byte-oriented file. The problem is with magtape
- interfaces that assume, e.g., little-endian order on a big-endian
- machine; and transform
- byte0
- byte1
- byte2
- byte3
- to
- byte1 | byte0 | byte3 | byte2
- instead of
- byte0 | byte1 | byte2 | byte3
- (the classic NUXI problem).
- --
-
- Joe Yao hadron!jsdy@seismo.{CSS.GOV,ARPA,UUCP}
- jsdy@hadron.COM (not yet domainised)
-
- Volume-Number: Volume 9, Number 16
-
-