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- Path: sparky!uunet!starnine!mikeh
- From: mikeh@starnine.com (Mike Haas)
- Subject: Re: Documenting - blocks source to target
- Message-ID: <C0rzKE.8nK@starnine.com>
- Sender: mikeh@starnine.com (Mike Haas)
- Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 04:38:37 GMT
- References: <1ijtaoINN3m4@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- Organization: StarNine Technologies, Inc.
- Lines: 34
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- In article <1ijtaoINN3m4@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> bs764@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Fred H Olson) writes:
- >
- >In a message about blocks vs text files cbbrowne@csi.uottawa.ca
- >(Christopher Browne) states:
- >
- >>In the case of an embedded controller, there may not BE anything
- >>connected in the end, aside from an RS-232 connection. In this case,
- >>"streams" win out, since there is nothing that even resembles a BLOCK.
- >>I think that EForth works this way.
- >
- > Blocks can work fine here without going to 'serial block
- >emulation'. It is trivial to send blocks as a stream... (Not so
-
- > One feature
- >of such a system was that the host could filter the blocks before
- >sending them -- not sending 'trailing spaces' or anything after a
- >;S on a block for example.
-
- This is what kills me about blocks... the above fella used -TRAILING when
- sending screens over a communications media, adding extra code to both
- the SEND and RECEIVE routines (the RECEIVEr has to put them back in, no?).
-
- Why is he not concerned about the terrible waste of disk space that
- SCREENS cause?
-
- In short, he did extra work to efficiently transfer his source from one
- place to another, but once it got to the other end, he has to do more
- work to cause his source code to (once again) take up much more disk space
- than necessary.
-
- Go figure.
-
- Blocks just don't make sense.
-
-