inet.3: remove mention of VAX endianness

Machine endianness is not very important in understanding the inet*
functions; the endianness of the VAX is especially so.

PR:		272728
Sponsored by:	The FreeBSD Foundation

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Ed Maste

2023-08-01 13:20:12 -04:00

parent 5cdaac92e1

commit 89c762c815

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lib/libc/net/inet.3

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@@ -191,17 +191,6 @@ a
 When four parts are specified, each is interpreted
 as a byte of data and assigned, from left to right,
 to the four bytes of an Internet address.
 Note
 that when an Internet address is viewed as a 32-bit
 integer quantity on the
 .Tn VAX
 the bytes referred to
 above appear as
 .Dq Li d.c.b.a .
 That is,
 .Tn VAX
 bytes are
 ordered from right to left.
 .Pp
 When a three part address is specified, the last
 part is interpreted as a 16-bit quantity and placed