-=> Pascal Schmidt wrote to Bo Simonsen <=-

 PS> Hi Bo! :-)

Hi Pascal,

 PS>> What is an sword supposed to be? I'd stick to standard names.

 BS> signed words afair. Anyhow it has the same lenght as a word have,
 BS> which is 2 bytes..

 PS> This is called uint16_t by the C standard's . ;)

Yes but in the dos world it's beeing called a word :)

 PS> That's the most useful definition for such a type since it
 PS> is guaranteed to work no matter what the word size of the
 PS> underlying machine is.

Yes, that's right. 

 BS> I should be little endian, fidonet packages should be send in little
 BS> endian, so I guess I just run a htonl on the words?

 PS> htonl will swap the bytes on a little endian machine, and
 PS> not swap them on a big endian machine. Network byte order
 PS> is big endian.

Yes the man page says so :)

 PS> It looks like you will need to code your own routines that
 PS> behave the other way round.

Yes that might be more portable too, if I need to do extra things on 
some other platforms.

Bo


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