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Thankx, guys. I have a working solution.. (inet_ntoa(pack). and info that wasn't clear ntoa takes 4 chars). next task is to read up on pack and integer representation.... it's not clear to an old C guy why integer is different than the 4 concatenated characters you suggest.... if I cat the 4 1 byte chars x0a. 0xa . 0xa . 0x01 how is that different than the 32 bit value 0A0A0A01 that I had originally? mu la mi. guess I need to RTFM to figure out what really need to ask.

In reply to Re: Re: inet_ntoa question by Funkster
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