$ByteOrdering

$ByteOrdering
gives the native ordering of bytes in binary data on your computer system.

corresponds to big endian (appropriate for 680x0 and many other processors); corresponds to little endian (appropriate for x86 processors).

corresponds to having the most significant byte first; to having the least significant byte first.

$ByteOrdering gives the default setting for the ByteOrdering option in Import and Export.

Byte ordering on this machine:

Read in a byte stream with reversed byte ordering:

Correct the byte ordering:

Byte ordering on this machine:

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Read in a byte stream with reversed byte ordering:

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Correct the byte ordering:

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