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Introduction to cvendian

Introduction to cvendian

InterSystems provides a utility to convert the byte order of an InterSystems database from Big-endian (that is, most-significant byte first) to Little-endian (that is, least-significant byte first), and vice versa. It is called cvendian, for convert endian. This is useful when moving a database among platforms of the two types. It also provides an option to report on the byte order of a given database.

For information about the Endianness of supported platforms, see Platform Endianness.

Important:

You cannot use this utility on a mounted database.

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