VMS Help TCPIP Services, Programming Interfaces, RPC XDR Routines, xdr_short  *Conan The Librarian (sorry for the slow response - running on an old VAX)

    Serializes and deserializes short integers.
    Format
      #include  <tcpip$rpcxdr.h>
      bool_t  xdr_short(XDR *xdrs, short *sp);

1 - Arguments

 xdrs
    A pointer to an XDR stream handle created by one of the XDR
    stream handle creation routines.
 sp
    A pointer to a short integer.

2 - Description

    A filter primitive that translates between short integers and
    their external representations.

3 - Return Values

    TRUE               Indicates success.
    FALSE              Indicates failure.