Hi Bo! :-)

 BS> It might be more portable to use the swap thing, because htonl (and 
 BS> brothers) might not exist in some OS'es like Solaris(?).
htonl does exist on Solaris. I know because my NFS server project uses it
and it compiles and runs fine on Solaris.

Ciao
Pascal

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