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From: tmoran@acm.org
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Subject: Re: Any examples of Byte Ordering Functions
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>build to.from arrays of Unsigned_32.
>
>You could write your own functions to do this - it is trivial, esp if you
  How about raising the abstraction level and using Streams.  ie, don't
read something as Unsigned_32, then byte swap (or not).  Instead define
a 'Read for objects of the type and two implementation of that 'Read,
one just reading four bytes and the other reading four bytes and swapping.