From: bsl04@... (Brian)
Date: 2002-07-01T23:49:48+09:00
Subject: convert bytes of numerics to character arrays

In C, I might memcpy an int or short into an array of characters.  Is
there some wonderful way in Ruby to append the bytes which compose a
numeric value to a character array?  This is useful for things like
constructing fixed-length field packets.  Thank you.