big endian and little endian, refering to the order in which multibyte
values are stored.


On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, Salvatore Mancini wrote:

> what are BE and LE?
>=20
> "Jarom=EDr Dolecek" wrote:
>=20
> > 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/~dole=
cek/
> > @@@@  Wanna a real operating system ? Go and get NetBSD, damn!  @@@@
>=20