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From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: Enum on-disk format
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Msg-id 1258635514.21292.66.camel@fsopti579.F-Secure.com
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In response to Re: Enum on-disk format  (Scott Bailey <artacus@comcast.net>)
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On ons, 2009-11-18 at 22:33 -0800, Scott Bailey wrote:
> The only I/O functions I'm aware of are
> send, recv, in and out. What controls converting from/to wire and
> on-disk formats?

send and recv

>  And why is wire format little endian and disk big endian?

The wire format is network order (which is big endian), the disk format
is whatever your CPU uses.

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