Binary File Compatibility Between ULTRIX and Other UNIX Systems

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <26467 at adm.brl.mil> siggins at kodak.com (Richard Siggins, B-150B, Eastman Chemical Company Research, X- 3762) writes:
>As a new UNIX systems person I was dismayed to discover that floating point and
>integer numbers are not stored in the same format in a binary file on ULTRIX vs
>most other UNIX systems.

This has nothing to do with Ultrix or Unix -- binary data files are inherently
unportable.  Why not convert them to text then transport that.