Use the Data Attributes tab to specify program initialization parameters and data handling options for a conversation:

In the Code page field, type the character code page used by the remote system. The default code page is whatever the current code page is for the system you are developing your application on.

In the Buffer length field, type the size of the memory buffer VA Smalltalk should allocate for the data sent to and received from the server. For a remote external function call, the buffer size must be at least as large as the total size of the record used by the function.

The default value for this field is 1024

Select Big endian to specify you want the partner to use the bigEndian format.

If you do not select Big endian, the partner uses littleEndian format.