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From: mrimages@beach.gal.utexas.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: 4 bytes to a long?
Message-ID: <452.28524fa9@beach.gal.utexas.edu>
Date: 9 Jun 91 21:56:24 GMT
References: <451.28517f01@beach.gal.utexas.edu>
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Sorry, to be less ambiguous I am including some lines that were left out of
my original source example:

In article <451.28517f01@beach.gal.utexas.edu>, mrimages@beach.gal.utexas.edu writes:
> 
> 	Is there a fast, simple way to convert 4 bytes into a long? I am
> doing it presently this way, but it seems kind of kludgy:
 
union 	{
 	long tlong;
 	char tchar[4];
 	} mytime;
char block[232];
  
 for(i=0;i<4;i++)
 	mytime.tchar[i]=block[123+i];
 sprintf(tempstr,"%s",ctime(&mytime.tlong));
 
> Any suggestions or is this the best I can do?  I am not really concerned
about Big_endian/Little_endian differences.   This is an Amiga specific
program.

Thanks to all who have replied VIA mail to date to this question and also
to my begin 644 FILENAME query.
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 R. Luebbert = mrimages@beach.gal.utexas.edu (UT Medical Branch Galveston)