[Biococoa-dev] Reading binary files on intel machine

[Koen van der Drift]

That seems to be related to the little-endian and big-endian difference between intel and ppc processors. See eg this article: http://blogs.adobe.com/scottbyer/2006/03/macintosh_and_t.html.

- Koen.


-----Original Message-----
>From: Alexander Griekspoor <a.griekspoor at nki.nl>
>Sent: Apr 1, 2006 7:04 AM
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>Subject: [Biococoa-dev] Reading binary files on intel machine
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>Hi guys,
>
>Someone reported that he couldn't read a DNA strider file with  
>EnzymeX on his macbook, does any of you guys have an intel based mac  
>or the possibility to test the standalone reader on such a machine.  
>My gut feeling says I have to add some code to do some byte swapping  
>(which I din't) and that's the reason reading binary files (strider/ 
>gck) fails using the current code...
>Alex
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