From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto) Date: 2002-04-13T01:47:11+09:00 Subject: Re: Array#pack: byte order for unsigned types Hi, In message "Re: Array#pack: byte order for unsigned types" on 02/04/12, "Jason Voegele" writes: |How, then, do "I", "L", and "S" differ from their signed counterparts? No difference in pack, but in unpack. Try [-1].pack("i").unpack("i") and [-1].pack("i").unpack("i"). matz.