Re: [Q] Text vs Binary Files

From: Donald Roby (droby_at_acm.org)
Date: 08/28/04

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    Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 00:49:02 GMT

    On Fri, 28 May 2004 10:05:35 -0400, Arthur J. O'Dwyer wrote:

    >
    > *Again* I urge the consultation of the RFCs defining any standard
    > binary file format, and the notice of the complete lack of regard
    > for big-endian/little-endian/19-bit-int/37-bit-int issues. At the
    > byte level, these things simply never come up.
    >
    >

    Try (for example) RFC 1314.

    These things certainly do come up, and they're handled by encoding the
    rules in a header of the format.

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