Quote Originally Posted by Lindley View Post
Yes, although when you condense it the second way, then the endianness of the machine becomes a concern. It's just something to bear in mind.

You and Codeplug have been a blessing. Almost there! So bottom line is: Endian issues between machines is a 'non issue' with the first approach. The 'cost' though is 4 bytes.. ( a factor of 2 difference using my contrived example)