* bytes one at a time and assemble them. (That might not be the
* case on a little-endian platform, such as DEC's MIPS machines and
* Alpha machines, where "ntohs()" and "ntohl()" might not be done
* bytes one at a time and assemble them. (That might not be the
* case on a little-endian platform, such as DEC's MIPS machines and
* Alpha machines, where "ntohs()" and "ntohl()" might not be done