From: Daniel Lewis Date: 2005-11-03T20:18:03+09:00 Subject: Re: Detect if the computer is little or big endian On 03/11/05, Peter Hickman wrote: > Windows XPPro, Intel > > irb(main):002:0> [1,0,0,0].pack("i") > => "\001\000\000\000" > irb(main):003:0> > > Macintosh OS X, Power PC > > irb(main):004:0> [1,0,0,0].pack("i") > => "\000\000\000\001" > irb(main):005:0> I like this, thanks.