<rwmailli...@googlemail.com> wrote:
The main database file is binary anyway.
Look out for big-endian and little-endian, too. That affects databases.
This bit us once when we copied a berkeley db from solaris to linux.
Endian-ness is based on the cpu hardware, but apparently Macs and most
hardware used for Linux (like Intel) are both little-endian-- so it is
probably not the answer in this case.
This is a nice test I found:
echo -n I | od -to2 | awk '{ print substr($2,6,1); exit}'
1 little-endian
0 big-endian
Joseph Brennan
Columbia U
