fread portability summary

[Shores]

Thanks to everyone who responded (Mitch Patterson, Chris Torek, Mike
Stefanik, Peter Schmitt, Raymond Chen, Steve Clamage, Torsten Weirich,
Martin Peter Howell, Wolfgang Denk, Dave Albertson).

The actual problem is that I'm trying to read a binary file originally
created on a big endian machine on a little endian machine.


   Tom... Tommy... Thomas... the Tom-ster, the Tom-boy, the Tomminator...
   ... Tom Shores, Department of Mathematics, University of Nebraska.
   ... shores at fergvax.unl.edu