> FTPing the file between the Vax and the 3000 might work: from what
I've read
> about TCP/IP, I believe it's supposed to convert from the host's byte
order
> to "network" byte order (and vice versa).
>
> ...assuming, of course, that there's a network connection between the
two
> systems.
>
>  --  Evan
>
 
No.  We have been moving binary data files to PC's for years, so trust
me on this.  FTP and TCP/IP do not have any knowledge of the contents of
a file; they could never know which bytes need to be swapped.  Only
intelligent software working off a data dictionary or file description
could provide that.  Examples:  an RDBMS knows field types, so a product
like Allbase/NET or IBI's EDA/SQL can figure out which fields are binary
and have to be swapped.
 
Rob Joseph
The NPD Group