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From: mjr@hussar.dco.dec.com (Marcus J. Ranum)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Sending struct through DGRAM socket
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Date: 18 Apr 91 17:41:04 GMT
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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?

	There is no "clean" way to do it - take a look at Sun's XDR
protocol (if you're on a 386i it should be in your doc kit) and all
the RPC/XDR goo. Basically, it involves writing a function that will
convert your structure into a padded, folded, spindled, and mutilated
format that will transport over the net - and then you decode it on
the other side.

mjr.