7:47:12jackdanielWhite_Flame: pjb: kakuhen: phoe: thanks. yes, after examining a bit closer the protocol, there is always a surrounding logand operator, so the negative value will be yanked either way, so I'm good with (logand #<something> (lognot #<the number>)) ; the issue was that the negation was used with unqualified integer values (i.e 3), so I couldn't know how many bits the number had