Metrologic Optimus S Programming Manual page 169

Byte Swapping
htonl
Purpose To convert an unsigned long integer from host byte order to network byte
order.
unsigned long htonl (unsigned long val);
Syntax
unsigned long val;
Example (?)
This routine converts an unsigned long integer from host byte order to network
Description
byte order.
Return If successful, it returns the value of conversion.
Otherwise (?)
See Also ntohl
htons
Purpose To convert an unsigned (short) integer from host byte order to network byte
order.
Syntax unsigned htons (unsigned val);
unsigned val;
Example struct sockaddr_in name;
s = socket (PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, TCP);
if (s < 0) {
}
memset (&name, 0, sizeof (name));
name.sin_family = AF_INET;
name.sin_port = htons (3000);
Description This routine converts an unsigned (short) integer from host byte order to
network byte order.
Return If successful, it returns the value of conversion.
Otherwise (?)
See Also ntohs
Chapter 3 Terminal Specific Function Library
printf ("SOCKET allocation failed");
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/* an unsigned long integer to be converted */
/* an unsigned integer to be converted */
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