Binary manipulation

[jbk@world.std.com (Jeffrey B Kane)]

What is the best way to do binary manipulation of data within MCL?
I need to do the equivalent of shifts, ands, nors, ors, etc., but the problem
I'm having is doing these with integers and fixnums  How would you convert the following
to mcl:

{
	short var1 47;
	unsigned long var2 0x322459;

	*((var1 & 0x7 << 3) + var2)
}

going back and forth between MCL fixnum and bit-arrays (without losing data)?

	Jeffrey


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