prob with struct and byte order

[John Machin]

Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2006-07-24, Steve Holden <steve at holdenweb.com> wrote:
> > nephish at xit.net wrote:
> >
> >> now the 17758 is significant because it is the actual unit number of
> >> the machine we want to monitor. I just dont know how to extract the
> >> real values out of this message.
>
> What is meant by "real values"?
>

:-)
I guess he means "real" as opposed to unreal/surreal/virtual/imagined,
not as in the FORTRAN programmer's credo:
"""
GOD is REAL
JESUS is INTEGER
"""
(-: