Byte swapping help please 964

This statement makes no sense to me. I'm not sure what you're trying to say. Of course you have a text file. C source files are text files. So by definition, if you don't have a text file, it certainly can't be C source.

The definition of a text file, unfortunately,isvery platform dependant.

I fail to see how this paragraph contradicts anything else I've said. And you've failed to illustrate how it does, so I will continue to believe that it does not.

No, you end up with a file that is not, from your system's point of view, a valid plaintext file, and therefore not C code at all.

The file you end up with, though, is not the file your machine was intended to have. Conversion is typically automatic to the process of downloading from a server: if the conversion did not take place, there was a configuration error somewhere, and I don't believe that anyone could consider the download to have been "successful" in that case.

Such is certainly not my definition, as you'd realize had you actually been reading what I'd written.

My point is simply that trying to use text-encoding issues to make a claim that C source can never be portable is a fallacy.

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