: { This converts an ip address (which you provide) into a 32 bit internet address, ala what DCC uses. One small problem -- epic does math with 'long's and not 'unsigned long's and so ip addresses above 128.* result in negative values. How to fix this is left as an exercise for the reader. Written in November, 2000 } alias ip_to_int (ip, void) { @ :ip_list = split(. $ip) @ :ip32 = 0 for xx in ($ip_list) { @ ip32 = (ip32 } return $ip32 } #hop'y2k
