On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 05:17:09PM +0200, Hadmut Danisch wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 02:45:20PM +0900, Brian Candler wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 06:50:01AM +0900, Hadmut Danisch wrote:
> > > do the pack and unpack procedures support 64 bit signed/unsigned
> > > integers?
> > 
> > The documentation is at http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/
> > In the top right-hand frame, click on pack(Array) or unpack(String).
> 
> 
> Thanks for hinting me. 
> 
> 
> But that means that Q/q is only for signed, unsigned. The byte order is
> always that of the processor. No way to explicitely state whether big or
> little endian?

Correct. There's no "network byte order 64-bit" conversion.