On 01/13/2016 10:06 AM, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
Can I ask a naive question here please: does a binary stream store
endianness anywhere?
AFAIK, generally, such binary (file-, Network transfer, ....) formats
are not supposed to be "natively" portable. To be portable they should
be either propriety (defined by the *single* application that uses them)
or Text-based (such as XML or "INITFILE").
-Michael
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