solved: byte order issues (was Re: [Integrit-users] problems using integrit)

[Ed L C. <ec...@co...>]

Good news: the problem has been fixed.  It was a byte order issue.
The cdb is stored in a cross-platform format.  The numbers in the cdb
file are in little-endian byte order, so no problems showed up on
PC's.

Now cdb's own number packing and unpacking routines are used to ensure
that the numbers from the database are translated correctly into the
host's native integer format.

Thanks much to Van Liedekerke Franky for reporting the problem.  This
fix is a big deal, since it applies to all big-endian architectures
(and therefore lets me use integrit on more machines at work :).

Soon I'll announce a version 1.06 release.  It will be a beta, since
the current integrit has some enhancements and more error checking.

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--Ed Cashin                    integrit file verification system
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