Hi Bo! :-)

 BS> #define get_dword(ptr) \
 BS>   ((dword)((byte)(ptr)[0]) | \
 BS>   (((dword)((byte)(ptr)[1])) << 8) | \
 BS>   (((dword)((byte)(ptr)[2])) << 16) | \
 BS>   (((dword)((byte)(ptr)[3])) << 24))

 BS> #define get_word(ptr) \
 BS>   (word) ((word)((byte)(ptr)[0]) | \
 BS>   (((word)((byte)(ptr)[1])) << 8 ))

 BS> For big endian?
Ugh. Just store stuff in network order (big endian) and use htonl and
friends to convert to host byte order.

    man 3 htonl

Ciao
Pascal

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