Hi, I'm somewhat embarrassed since I've been programming Perl for 7+ years now. I can't figure out how to flip a little-endian TIFF file created on a Windows 3.1 machine to a big-endian TIFF file readable on a Sun Solaris machine.

Right now I have this (as little2big), which doesn't work: 

   #!/usr/bin/perl

   die "Usage: $0 filename\n" unless @ARGV == 1;

   my $file = shift;

   my $buf;
   open IN, $file or die "Can't read $file: $!\n";
   while (read(IN, $buf, 4)) {
       print pack "N", unpack "V", $buf;
   }
   close IN;

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Then I try: 
   little2big little-endian.tif >big-endian.tif

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When I do this, all I get is "data" as a file type.

I've also tried reading 2 bytes and then using the pack/unpack templates n/v, but it doesn't flip anything correctly.

What am I missing? I feel like a Dumass. Thanks...

-Nate

In reply to How to flip little-endian TIFF to big-endian? by Anonymous Monk

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