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Subject: Re: Crafty binary for Cray computers?

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 14:53:20 03/23/99

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On March 23, 1999 at 14:25:26, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On March 23, 1999 at 14:23:29, KarinsDad wrote:
>
>>On March 23, 1999 at 13:47:41, Eugene Nalimov wrote:

>>>Tablebases and compressed tablebases are endian-neutral.
>>>
>>>Eugene
>>
>>What does this mean?
>>
>>I thought that endian ordering was based on the capabilities of the chip and/or
>>OS, not on the database. Wouldn't you need a different set of code to access the
>>files properly on different systems?
>They must be stored as character strings or something like that. You can't get
>away with it if you use integers or floating point.  It's pretty remarkable if
>it works.

All it means is that he eats his file a byte at a time.

Do you have a header at the beginning of the thing Eugene?

bruce



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