On ons, 2009-11-18 at 22:33 -0800, Scott Bailey wrote:
> The only I/O functions I'm aware of are
> send, recv, in and out. What controls converting from/to wire and
> on-disk formats?
send and recv
> And why is wire format little endian and disk big endian?
The wire format is network order (which is big endian), the disk format
is whatever your CPU uses.