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Top Forums Programming Big and Little Endian Post 31695 by Perderabo on Tuesday 12th of November 2002 09:57:03 AM
Old 11-12-2002
With traditional sockets in a TCP/IP environment, we would use some macros. You can see the macros by typing "man htons". But they only do integers. And they don't do 64 bit. Still, they do work and they are very efficient. I have never used Sun'S XDR, but it is another choice.
 

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