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- From: ridder@zowie.zso.dec.com (Hans)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: What is htonl() ?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.051705.4435@ninja.zso.dec.com>
- Date: 28 Dec 92 05:17:05 GMT
- Article-I.D.: ninja.1992Dec28.051705.4435
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- In article <1107@blue.cis.pitt.edu> stern+@pitt.edu (Eric G Stern) writes:
- >... while the (BSD) network specifications say that four byte objects
- >(network addresses for instance) are stored and transmitted with the
- >most significant byte first.
-
- Just to clarify, the "network specifications" are not BSD's, but
- actually Internet RFC's, which predate BSD. BSD Unix is just one
- popular implementation of the RFC's.
-
- > Eric Stern
-
- -hans
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- Hans-Gabriel Ridder <ridder@rust.zso.dec.com>
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