Network number scheme/Dead list?

["Nicholas S Castellano" <entropy@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu>]

>Hey, where is everyone?  Or am I just not getting anything through the
>list?  I haven't seen a new message in weeks!

You had been commented out of the list due to bounced mail.  I just
added you back...

>I seem to remember hearing something about some sort of scheme that grew
>out of NFS for sending words and longwords over the network in a platform-
>independant format (ie, big-endian! :-)...  Does this ring a bell with
>anyone?  Can you tell me the real name of the routines/whatever I'm
>looking for?

MiNT-net provides the standard htonl, htons, ntohl, ntohs for
converting between network and host long/short.  In MiNT-net these are
no-ops since the 68K already uses the right order.

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