[6251] in SIPB bug reports
mcvert endianness problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Thu Dec 19 18:38:41 1996
To: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
From: amu@MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Date: 19 Dec 1996 18:36:01 -0500
When I tried to use mcvert on my Linux box to extract data forks from
some MacBinary files, I noticed that it was taking a long time and
producing a really big file. When I tried the same thing with the
latest version (available in the info-mac archive), it worked
perfectly. This means that there is a bug in the version installed in
the sipb locker; given that the x86 and the m68k have opposite
endianness, it's most likely an endianness bug.
Anyway, the latest version fixes the bug, and you should probably
install it. (I'd do it myself, but I'm not in gsipbbin.)
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