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From: pautet@antigone.enst.fr (Laurent Pautet)
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Subject: Re: Any examples of Byte Ordering Functions
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 20:44:48 +0000 (UTC)
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>I'm trying to implement reading 16 bit words from a stream with a given 
>endianess (that is the endianess of the items in the stream is known), 

have a look at s-strxdr.adb in gnat.

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-- Laurent