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From: erkyrath@netcom.com (Andrew Plotkin)
Subject: Re: Compatibility of Macs/PCs/Unix Inform saves
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Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 17:29:41 GMT
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George Caswell (timbuktu@adamant.res.wpi.edu) wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Oct 1996 rbram@cris.com wrote:

>    Endian-ness is a hardware thing.  The same version of Unix on two
> different platforms may need to use different endian-ness, based on the
> design of the processor...  

Painfully true. In re the XZip source code, someone reminded me that 
there is now Linux for the PowerMac, which is big-endian, as well as 
Linux for the x86 (small-endian.)

>    As for save files, yes, Jzip and Xzip share a platform-independant save
> file format, and Frotz has a (very compact) platform-independant save file
> format of its own...

--Z

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