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to: Jasen Betts
from: Pascal Schmidt
date: 2004-01-22 14:15:36
subject: Re: Big endian machines

Hi Jasen! :-)

 JB> no, that'll break it, because "net" format is big endian, also the 
 JB> wrong size and direction.  size and direction should be ntohs()  
 JB> (net-to-host-short)
Note that direction doesn't matter, ntohs() and htons() do the same thing -
either they swap bytes or they don't, but it's the same operation in both
directions.

Ciao
Pascal

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