2.11BSD#431 - /usr/man/cat3/l3tol.0

L3TOL(3)	    UNIX Programmer's Manual		 L3TOL(3)


NAME
     l3tol, ltol3 - convert between 3-byte and long integers
     (2BSD)

SYNOPSIS
     l3tol(lp, cp, n)
     long *lp;
     char *cp;

     ltol3(cp, lp, n)
     char *cp;
     long *lp;

DESCRIPTION
     L3tol converts a list of n three-byte integers packed into a
     character string pointed to by cp into a list of long
     integers pointed to by lp.

     Ltol3 performs the inverse conversion from long integers
     (lp) to three-byte integers (cp).

     These functions are useful for file-system maintenance under
     2BSD where disk addresses within inodes are three bytes
     long.

SEE ALSO
     fs(5)

BUGS
     l3tol and ltol3 are unique to the PDP-11 and 2BSD; their use
     is discouraged.


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