1993.08.17 13:32 "Re: byte swapping 16- and 32-bit data", by Gaile G. Gordon

Actually, machine independence, and the fact that I don't need to worry about byte swapping is one of the big advantages in my mind to using the tiff library. Although I wouldn't mind if you added the no byte swap as an option for cases were efficiency is the primary concern, I would not be happy if I had to add byte swapping to all my tiff code.