Binary data file compatibility across machines

[Dale Cook]

In article <prk.659625326 at pegasus>, prk at planet.bt.co.uk (KnightRider) writes:
|> stiber at cs.ucla.edu (Michael D Stiber) writes:
|> 
|> The short, easy, answer is yes - Use the facilities provided by the 
|> presentation layer services provided by your communications system, 
|> if you have one.  For OSI systems this will ASN.1 -Abstract Syntax 
|> Notation 1.  If you use Sun systems, you may be able to use XDR 
|> -External Data Representation.
|> 
|> However, these are difficult services to encode, usually, so you may
|> want to go to an external vendor to support these.  
|> 

XDR libraries exist on a host of UNIX environments (VAX, Cray, and MASSCOMP
to name a few), and they're not that hard to use.  I believe Sun developed
the standard.

---Dale Cook    cdm at inel.gov
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