> Yes, it would (win and work...).  I've been thinking of the semantics of 
> this a bit...perhaps a `swap-byte' flag that's handled on a per-mount 
> basis...this flag could be set by reading the superblock, if the magic 
> number is wrong, flip it around, check again, if it's fine now, set the 
> flag...you get the idea...

Great minds think alike....  :')  This is what I had in mind too...

> Cool...send me the code...I've got my hp380 doing hp, sparc, and 
> almost amiga...I need to scavenge a disk from a sun3 (well, one that I 
> can plug into my hp, anyway...) and see if it works with it, too.

I'll do that tonight.

			       _MelloN_