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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