inet.3: remove mention of VAX endianness
Machine endianness is not very important in understanding the inet* functions; the endianness of the VAX is especially so. PR: 272728 Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
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When four parts are specified, each is interpreted
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as a byte of data and assigned, from left to right,
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to the four bytes of an Internet address.
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Note
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that when an Internet address is viewed as a 32-bit
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integer quantity on the
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.Tn VAX
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the bytes referred to
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above appear as
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.Dq Li d.c.b.a .
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That is,
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.Tn VAX
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bytes are
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ordered from right to left.
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.Pp
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When a three part address is specified, the last
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part is interpreted as a 16-bit quantity and placed
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