JB>  NH> To make things more interesting, integer values were little
JB>  NH> endian but were only 12 bits long.  The 13th bit was the start
JB>  NH> of the next number. That way every 3 bytes held 2 integer
JB>  NH> values.

JB> use sscanf() instead of atoi() - you can specifiy field widths....

Hmmm... if I received a byte value (ASCII) 65 ('A') how would I use 
sscanf() to specify that val_1 = 6 and val_2 = 5?  I've never seen that 
done with sscanf().  Could you also do do that sprintf()?

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