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From: markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark William Hopkins)
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Subject: Re: Sending struct through DGRAM socket
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Date: 18 Apr 91 16:16:32 GMT
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In article <14918@helios.TAMU.EDU> greg@carnivore.tamu.edu (Greg Economides) writes:
>Is there a quick/clean way to translate a struct into a character stream 
>(and then a way to get the struct back) so that it can be sent using these
>functions?

Structs are formatted in a machine-dependent and compiler-dependent way.  You
absolutely need to set up routines to break apart and form the struct by
hand.  You know, like:

	  sprintf(Buf, "%5.3f:%5.3f:%5.3f\n", A->X, A->Y, A->Z);
          SendBytes(Buf);

and whatever the corresponding sscanf and "RecvBytes" statements are.