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

    Converts short integers from host byte order to network byte
    order.
    Format
      #include  <in.h>
      unsigned short int htons  ( unsigned short int hostshort );

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