Bigendian Convention

Most computers use on of two ways in which order the 4bytes that make up a real*4 or integer*4 number. All our files have been written using the so called big endian convention. This is the default behaviour for SUN machines. For other machines such as Dec-alpha the default is little endian. In such cases it is necessary to specifically select the bigendian option when compiling fortran code. On Dec-alpha's this is done using the compile flag "-convert big_endian" .