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From: Mike Young <mikey@mcs.com>
Subject: Re: Endian and Ada
Date: 1996/04/09
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Kelly Grant wrote:
>
> the Win32 environment (winsock specifically) we have methods like NtoHS (Network
> to Host System) that will know whether to swap bytes or not).  I think the
> network byte ordering is big endian, but I don't know for certain.

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Not just winsock, but all Berkeley sockets, meaning almost all unices. 
(You might also want to note that some languages are case sensitive. 
That's ntohs, thank you. :) Network byte order is commonly accepted (if 
not actually specified somewhere) to mean big-endian.