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Endian
Often the endianess of binary data in the file does not agree with the
endianess used by the platform on which gnuplot is running. Several words can
direct gnuplot how to arrange bytes. For example endian=little means treat
the binary file as having byte significance from least to greatest. The options
are
little: least significant to greatest significance
big: greatest significance to least significance
default: assume file endianess is the same as compiler
swap (swab): Interchange the significance. (If things
don't look right, try this.)
Gnuplot can support "middle" ("pdp") endian if it is compiled with that option.
Ethan Merritt
2007-03-03