Any correlation between me and reality, let alone my opinions and those of my employer, is entirely coincedental
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.