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- From: mskuhn@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Markus Kuhn)
- Subject: Re: GNU finger
- References: <146dheINNjrl@iraul1.ira.uka.de> <JBRYANS.92Jul20162806@beach.csulb.edu>
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- Organization: CSD., University of Erlangen, Germany
- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 07:50:45 GMT
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- jbryans@beach.csulb.edu (Jack Bryans) writes:
-
- >If your network has mixed endianity, you may not want it. Its protocol
- >assumes that the hardware representation of numbers is the same on all of
- >your hosts.
-
- Then it is definitely NOT a protocol (which by definition is always an
- exactly specified format and not something like 'send the bytes of this struct
- on the line'). :-)
-
- Markus
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