Re: Can someone explain this?

> Forgive me if my math is askew, but doesn't the negative imply the > number is signed? If I remember from my C++ days, a declaration of: > > unsigned int blah; > > Meant you could not store negative numbers in that variable. Hence, > negatives would be signed. No? Yes, but once it become a hex string (after dechex()), all that info is gone. I think the way to handle this situation is to use pack & unpack. --------------------------------------------------------------------- michal migurski- contact info and pgp key: sf/ca http://mike.teczno.com/contact.html