Re: Problems with 64-bit numbers

[Michael Griebling <grieblm@inforamp.net>]

>Oops, should be added to my prevous posting:

>On Thu, 18 Apr 96 11:38:34 EDT grieblm@trt.allied.com (you) wrote:

>[knip]
>> Any data files (e.g., symbol files) intended to be portable should only use
>>  the compressed integer format for storing the binary representation of
>> integers (something which I didn't see in the Files modules BTW).

>A  WriteNum-method  can easily be added to the BinaryRiders module.
>I (at least) didn't think that much about compatability between
>Oberon-2/OOC systems, compatability with other programs on the host
>platform seeming more important to me. But then, I am only running
>an Oberon _system_ a month or two now.

>--
>Sander

This is more than just an Oberon system compatibility issue since this
may be the best way of generating portable datafiles even if we just
use OOC.

Michael Griebling