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1 | .TH L3TOL 3 |
| 2 | .SH NAME | |
| 3 | l3tol, ltol3 \- convert between 3-byte integers and long integers | |
| 4 | .SH SYNOPSIS | |
| 5 | .B l3tol(lp, cp, n) | |
| 6 | .br | |
| 7 | .B long *lp; | |
| 8 | .br | |
| 9 | .B char *cp; | |
| 10 | .PP | |
| 11 | .B ltol3(cp, lp, n) | |
| 12 | .br | |
| 13 | .B char *cp; | |
| 14 | .br | |
| 15 | .B long *lp; | |
| 16 | .SH DESCRIPTION | |
| 17 | .I L3tol | |
| 18 | converts a list of | |
| 19 | .I n | |
| 20 | three-byte integers packed into a character string | |
| 21 | pointed to by | |
| 22 | .I cp | |
| 23 | into a list of long integers pointed to by | |
| 24 | .IR lp . | |
| 25 | .PP | |
| 26 | .I Ltol3 | |
| 27 | performs the reverse conversion from long integers | |
| 28 | .RI ( lp ) | |
| 29 | to three-byte integers | |
| 30 | .RI ( cp ). | |
| 31 | .PP | |
| 32 | These functions are useful for file-system maintenance | |
| 33 | where the i-numbers are three bytes long. | |
| 34 | .SH SEE ALSO | |
| 35 | filsys(5) |