NAME:
       LITTLE_ENDIAN

 PURPOSE:
      
      LITTLE_ENDIAN performs a test to check the endianness on the 
      host computer. If the computer is little_endian it returns 1, 
      if the computer is big_endian it returns 0.
                                                                  

 CATEGORY:
       Hansteen/Wikstol Data analysis SW

 CALLING SEQUENCE:
	endian = little_endian()
 INPUTS:
	none
 KEYWORD PARAMETERS:


 OUTPUTS:
	1: computer is little_endian
	0: computer is big_endian

 CALLS:
	BYTE
 CALLED BY:
	EIS_DATA__READCCSDS [1], EIS_DATA__READCCSDS [2]
 COMMON BLOCKS:
       

 PROCEDURE:


 RESTRICTIONS:


 MODIFICATION HISTORY:
       26-Jan-2006: Oivind Wikstol

 start ximovie.pro on La Palma data cube
 reads info from header
 CALLS:
 CALLED BY
	EIS_CONCAT_DATA [1], EIS_CONCAT_DATA [2]