# HG changeset patch
# User Mychaela Falconia <falcon@freecalypso.org>
# Date 1671057631 0
# Node ID a217a6eacbad389feb84ae08bc3ef640f209e3f5
# Parent  a13b1605142b40d2349ff06df46b95f495ebd8da
doc/PCM-file-formats: establish "robe" format

diff -r a13b1605142b -r a217a6eacbad doc/PCM-file-formats
--- a/doc/PCM-file-formats	Wed Dec 14 22:25:31 2022 +0000
+++ b/doc/PCM-file-formats	Wed Dec 14 22:40:31 2022 +0000
@@ -16,3 +16,10 @@
 
 Both utilities take a mandatory command line argument specifying the endian
 order for the raw format - there is no default.
+
+Going forward, I (Mother Mychaela) prefer big-endian format for raw PCM16 files:
+aside from it being the network byte order on the Internet, 16-bit and 32-bit
+numbers appear "naturally" in hex dumps in BE, but not in LE.  Therefore, newly
+developed utilities will read and write PCM16 data in "robe" format - "robe" is
+English pronunciation play on "raw BE", and it is also the ritual garment worn
+by Themyscira telecom priestesses. :-)