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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Little Endiean and Big Endian Post 302070051 by Nirmal Babu on Friday 31st of March 2006 01:16:54 AM
Old 03-31-2006
Little Endiean and Big Endian

Dear Friends,

I have one question in my mind. That question is

"how to detect whether the system is little endiean or big endian"

Processing the bit position is the difference between this endians.
But I could not understand how to find the pariticular sytem works acccording to this pattern.

Advance Thanks for u All u r Answers. Smilie)

Thanks and Regards,
Nirmal Babu
 

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GPE-QUESTION(1) 						   gpe-question 						   GPE-QUESTION(1)

NAME
gpe-question - GPE interface for asking questions from shell scripts. SYNOPSIS
gpe-question [---icon] name {--question "Question text"} {--buttons icon1:text1} [icon2:text2 ...] DESCRIPTION
This manual page was written for the Debian(TM) distribution because the original program does not have a manual page. gpe-question provides dialogues to raise a question within the GPE Palmtop Environment with cancel and ok buttons. OPTIONS
--question STRING The question to ask the user via the dialogue. --buttons type:label The type and label of the button(s) to be shown. Repeat for additional buttons. EXAMPLES
gpe-question "test" --question "Do you want to check first?" --buttons YES:yes NO:no AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Neil Williams <codehelp@debian.org> for the Debian(TM) system (but may be used by others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any later version published by the Free Software Foundation. On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL. AUTHOR
Moray Allen Author. COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2007 Neil Williams Debian 1 January 16, 2007 GPE-QUESTION(1)
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