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From: "June Carey" <carey_june@hotmail.com>
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Subject: unsigned char portability
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 14:47:47 +0000
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Hi,

I have a question I was hoping someone could answer.
Does the "unsigned char" C type have any machine architecture portability 
problems ?
I rather suspect the answer is NO, since I seem to recall that "The Design 
and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating System" book mentions that 
bytes/octets are network portable in their native bit-ordering.

Thanks in advance,
Robin Carey.

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