### Endian

Often the endianess of binary data in the file does not agree with the endianess used by the platform on which gnuplot is running. Several words can direct gnuplot how to arrange bytes. For example endian=little means treat the binary file as having byte significance from least to greatest. The options are

                 little:  least significant to greatest significance
                    big:  greatest significance to least significance
                default:  assume file endianess is the same as compiler
            swap (swab):  Interchange the significance.  (If things
                          don't look right, try this.)

Gnuplot can support "middle" ("pdp") endian if it is compiled with that option.