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To: rrogers@mcs.com (Richard Rogers)
Cc: tiff@sgi.sgi.com
Subject: Re: little endian question 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 25 Oct 1993 11:18:30 CDT."
             <m0orUcp-000ZDTC@genesis.mcs.com> 
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1993 10:38:44 PDT
From: Sam Leffler <sam@flake.asd.sgi.com>
Sender: tiff-owner@sgi.sgi.com

    To:  tiff@sgi.sgi.com
    Subject:  little endian question
    Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1993 11:18:30 CDT
    From:  rrogers@mcs.com (Richard Rogers)

    
    Is there a way to force the creation of a little endian file on
    a big endian machine? I looked through the code and found the swap for
    reading, but not writing.

No.
    
    I am running the 3.30beta version on an IBM RS/6000 Model 320 under
    AIX version 3.2.3e .
    
    I've been writing out some rasterized plot files and found three COMMERCIAL
    tiff display programs that failed to read big endian files... unbeleivable.
    
The spec is very clear that readers must handle both big and little
endian byte orders.  It would be interesting to know which packages
wrongly claim to support TIFF.

	Sam





