From: Robert Evans <robert.evans@...>
Date: 2005-11-15T08:07:01+09:00
Subject: Reading a signed byte in network byte order

Hi,

In trying to read 4 bytes as a signed integer from an IO in big- 
endian order, is there already a utility to do this in Ruby? I notice  
unpack has lots of combinations already, but seemingly not one for  
this. Maybe I am just missing it?

Thanks,
Bob Evans