Hi, I have a question related to a program I'm writing. I have to handle IP packets, which will be read into a buffer. What is the best haskell idiom for getting access to the fields in the buffer? The IP header has a number of fixed format fields. In C, I would define a struct, then cast the pointer to the beginning of the buffer to a pointer to the struct. I would then be able to access each field in the header as <packet_struct_ptr> -> <field>. Is there a way in haskell to declare the format of the header, then access the components of the buffer as elements of those types? I'm only going to do read access on the buffer (an unboxed array). Most fields won't be examined but I can't tell in advance which ones will have to be looked at. I've not seen an example of this kind and was wondering if this was especially awkward. Thanks. Best Wishes, Greg Gregory Wright Antiope Associates LLC 18 Clay Street Fair Haven, New Jersey 07704 gwright@antiope.com