Salvatore Mancini wrote:
> what are BE and LE?

Big or Little Endian, respectively. In case you don't know,
this means how the machine is 'physically' laying bytes.
LE machines lay 16 bit value like higher byte before the
lower one, BE the other way around.

Jaromir

> > Stargate Industries, LLC - Network Operations Center wrote:
> > > I don't suppose the NTFS code will work on other ports?
> >
> > There is nothing inherently non-portable in there. Since
> > it has not been tested on any BE machine, I expect it to have
> > quite a few LE dependencies (and hence could fail mysteriously
> > on BE machines). It might "just work" for LE architectures
> > other than i386.
> > Once I get myself mac68k, I'd be able to even do some tests
> > myself - IIRC, m68k are BE :)
> >
> > Jaromir
> > --
> > Jaromir Dolecek <jdolecek@NetBSD.org>      http://www.ics.muni.cz/~dolecek/
> > @@@@  Wanna a real operating system ? Go and get NetBSD, damn!  @@@@
> 
> 
> 


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Jaromir Dolecek <jdolecek@NetBSD.org>      http://www.ics.muni.cz/~dolecek/
@@@@  Wanna a real operating system ? Go and get NetBSD, damn!  @@@@