Date: 2008mar4 Language: C/C++ Q. C/C++: How do I read and write in "network" order? A. Network order (aka Big Endian) is the usual way to write out number when its going to go over the net. The low order stuff comes first. Here are some routines to read and write it.

#include <stdio.h> typedef unsigned char DAVEKB_BYTE; typedef unsigned short DAVEKB_WORD; typedef unsigned long DAVEKB_DWORD; //------- // Two helper functions inline bool GetChunk(FILE *f, void *buf, const size_t size) { return fread(buf, 1, size, f) == size; } inline bool PutChunk(FILE *f, const void *buf, const size_t size) { return fwrite(buf, 1, size, f) == size; } //------- // Get bool GetWordNetwork(FILE *f, DAVEKB_WORD &w) { DAVEKB_BYTE buf[2]; if (!GetChunk(f, buf, sizeof(buf))) return false; w = (buf[0]<<8) | buf[1]; return true; } bool GetTripleByteNetwork(FILE *f, DAVEKB_DWORD &dw) { DAVEKB_BYTE buf[3]; if (!GetChunk(f, buf, sizeof(buf))) return false; dw = (buf[0]<<16) | (buf[1]<<8) | buf[2]; return true; } bool GetDoubleWordNetwork(FILE *f, DAVEKB_DWORD &dw) { DAVEKB_BYTE buf[4]; if (!GetChunk(f, buf, sizeof(buf))) return false; dw = (buf[0]<<24) | (buf[1]<<16) | (buf[2]<<8) | buf[3]; return true; } //------- // Put bool PutWordNetwork(FILE *f, const DAVEKB_WORD w) { DAVEKB_BYTE buf[2]; buf[0] = (DAVEKB_BYTE) (w >> 8); buf[1] = (DAVEKB_BYTE) (w & 0xff); return PutChunk(f, buf, sizeof(buf)); } bool PutTripleWordNetwork(FILE *f, const DAVEKB_DWORD dw) { DAVEKB_BYTE buf[3]; buf[0] = (DAVEKB_BYTE) (dw >> 16); buf[1] = (DAVEKB_BYTE) (dw >> 8) & 0xff; buf[2] = (DAVEKB_BYTE) (dw & 0xff); return PutChunk(f, buf, sizeof(buf)); } bool PutDoubleWordNetwork(FILE *f, const DAVEKB_DWORD dw) { DAVEKB_BYTE buf[4]; buf[0] = (DAVEKB_BYTE) (dw >> 24); buf[1] = (DAVEKB_BYTE) (dw >> 16) & 0xff; buf[2] = (DAVEKB_BYTE) (dw >> 8) & 0xff; buf[3] = (DAVEKB_BYTE) (dw & 0xff); return PutChunk(f, buf, sizeof(buf)); }