In article <Pine.NEB.3.96.971005202116.13467T-100000@cynic.portal.ca> cjs@portal.ca (Curt Sampson) writes:
>On 4 Oct 1997, Matthias Scheler wrote:
>
>> An ISO 8859 1 datafile is available under this URL:
>> ftp://colwyn.owl.de/pub/unix/NetBSD/experimental/ctype.tar.gz
>
>Is it mandated by POSIX that these datafiles be binary? I hate
>sticking stuff that is endian-specific in /usr/share.
>

These are not endian specific; they are big endian, so they should work
everywhere...

christos