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- From: gberigan@cse.unl.edu (Greg Berigan)
- Newsgroups: alt.config,alt.lang.basic,comp.lang.basic.visual.misc,announce,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.java
- Subject: Re: Proposal: alt.binaries.examples.vb4 , alt.binaries.examples.vcpp , alt.binaries.examples.java
- Date: Tue, 09 Apr 1996 23:49:55 -0500
- Organization: University of Nebraska -- Lincoln
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- In article <4ke24l$lel@hasle.sn.no>, balchen@sn.no wrote:
- >Alexander Goykhman USG <goykhman@zk3.dec.com>'s cats typed:
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- >>What does one do with a binary example? Disassemble it?
-
- >It's called a binary when you post a zip file.
-
- Nothing so restrictive. In the broadest definition I can think of, a
- binary is a 7-bit encoding of an 8-bit file that can be decoded to restore
- the 8-bit file.
-
- So what's a binary example (not an example of a binary), and what makes it
- so special from any other kind of binary? Have you considered using
- "programming" rather than "examples"?
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