VMS Help TCPIP Services, Programming Interfaces, Sockets API, inet_addr()  *Conan The Librarian (sorry for the slow response - running on an old VAX)

    Converts internet addresses in text form into numeric (binary)
    internet addresses in dotted decimal format.
    Format
      #include  <in.h>
      #include  <inet.h>
      int inet_addr  ( char *cp );

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