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24 .\" Linux libc source code
25 .\" Lewine's _POSIX Programmer's Guide_ (O'Reilly & Associates, 1991)
27 .\" Modified Sat Jul 24 21:29:05 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
28 .\" Translated to German Sun Dec 29 1996 by Patrick Rother <krd@gulu.net>
30 .TH BYTEORDER 3 "29. Dezember 1996" "BSD" "Bibliotheksfunktionen"
32 htonl, htons, ntohl, ntohs \- konvertiere Werte zwischen Rechner- und
36 .B #include <netinet/in.h>
38 .BI "unsigned long int htonl(unsigned long int " hostlong );
40 .BI "unsigned short int htons(unsigned short int " hostshort );
42 .BI "unsigned long int ntohl(unsigned long int " netlong );
44 .BI "unsigned short int ntohs(unsigned short int " netshort );
47 Die Funktion \fBhtonl()\fP konvertiert die Langganzzahl \fIhostlong\fP von
48 Rechner- nach Netzwerk-Byteordnung.
50 Die Funktion \fBhtons()\fP konvertiert die Kurzganzzahl \fIhostshort\fP
51 Rechner- nach Netzwerk-Byteordnung.
53 Die Funktion \fBntohl()\fP konvertiert die Langganzzahl \fInetlong\fP
54 von Netzwerk- nach Rechner-Byteordnung.
56 Die Funktion \fBntohs()\fP konvertiert die Kurzganzzahl \fInetshort\fP
57 von Netzwerk- nach Rechner-Byteordnung.
59 Auf dem i80x86 steht in der Rechnerbyteordnung das niederwertigste Byte
60 zuerst, wogegen in der im Internet benutzten Netzwerkbyteordnung das
61 höchstwertige Byte zuerst steht.
65 .BR gethostbyname (3),