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from: Neil Heller
date: 1998-08-16 11:33:00
subject: BIG VS LITTLE ENDIAN

In a program I am writting I receive a 4-byte decryption key from an
external source.  I just found out that this key is to be treated as a
big endian long integer.  My question concerns the ordering of the
bytes received so that I can properly use this value as a long integer
in my little endian machine.

If I receive the four bytes in the order:  A B C D

Is the proper way to rearrange these bytes:  B A D C

so that I can use the little endian long in my program?

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