packing unsigned char in PVM

Robert G. Brown rgb at phy.duke.edu
Tue Jun 27 14:41:26 PDT 2000


On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Burgu Praveen Kumar wrote:

> 
> Can anyone of u tell me how to pack unsigned char in PVM. 

I thought char was always unsigned.  Signed and unsigned differentiates
integers (only), or at least so I thought -- reserving the sign bit.
You should just pack for char, at a guess.

   rgb


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