From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: big-endian and little endian binaries
Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 10:38:03 +0200
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On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, Damian Yerrick wrote:

> >Any ideas on how, in C++,  I might be able to write big-endian numbers
> >(2-byte ints in this case) to a binary file when I'm on a machine that uses
> >little-endian format?
[snip]
> I know I may be reinventing the wheel, but I couldn't find anything of
> the sort in info libc.

Do htonl and htons ring a bell?