At 01:13 PM 3/6/97 PST, you wrote:
>Ooops!
>
>My conversion data structure and code should look more like this, sorry!
>
>union word_byte_u
>{
>    struct
>    {
>        unsigned char       low_byte;   /* the order of low_byte and
high_byte
>                                           declaration */
>        unsigned char       high_byte;  /* would be compiler specific */
>    } inner;
>    unsigned long       the_word;
>} u_convert;
>
>Then when you wanted to convert two bytes to one word in your code:
>
>u_convert.inner.low_byte = low_val;
>u_convert.inner.high_byte = high_val;
>answer = u_convert.the_word;
>
>
>-Bill

Lovely!  That's just what I must have had in the back of my mind.  Hey
Matt, if you can spare the two bytes of RAM then you can toss this into
your macro.

-Ed V.