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Date: Fri, 01 Oct 1999 11:32:15 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
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To: Erik Hensema <erik.hensema@group2000.nl>
CC: "'Zhang, John'" <John.Zhang@neonsoft.com>, cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: Winsock call to UNIX
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Erik Hensema wrote:
> [...]
> You should use the htons() and htonl() functions on win32 in order to
> correct the little/big endian problem.

Paranoid correction:

	Use htons/htonl and ntohs/ntohl not only on win32 but on
	_each_ system! If you ignore it only because you know, that
	the endian problem doesn't exist on your system (by chance),
	you'll never get portable code.

Regards,
Corinna



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