Helen,

H> You can understand the problems if your data were stored on a
H> Little Endian system, like ix86, and file-copied to a Big Endian system
H> like Sparc, ppc or a JVM ---and, according to this article, the Motorola
H> processors used in Macs.

this is but one of the many disservices that Intel did to the
computing industry when inventing that "cpu".

Ciao
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Nando Dessena
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