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Inside Macintosh: Networking With Open Transport / Part 2 - Open Transport Reference

Chapter 29 - TCP/IP Services Reference / Functions

OTInetHostToString
Converts an an address in InetHost format into a character string in dotted-decimal notation.

C INTERFACE
void OTInetHostToString (InetHost host,
                                         char *str);
C++ INTERFACE
None. C++ clients use the C interface to this function.

PARAMETERS

host
The address as an InetHost data type.
str
A pointer to a C stringthat, on return, contains an IP address in dotted-decimal notation (for example, "12.13.14.15"). You must allocate storage for this string and provide the pointer to the function.

SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS
The OTInetHostToString function cannot block and always runs synchronously. It does not use the services of the DNR.

SEE ALSO
The OTInetStringToHost function.