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- From: wand@dec5120z.ccs.northeastern.edu (Mitchell Wand)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.scheme
- Subject: Re: Binary representation
- Message-ID: <WAND.92Aug21113840@dec5120z.ccs.northeastern.edu>
- Date: 21 Aug 92 16:38:40 GMT
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- In-Reply-To: thinman@netcom.com's message of 20 Aug 92 17: 59:20 GMT
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- In article <vy#nk3h.thinman@netcom.com> thinman@netcom.com (Technically Sweet) writes:
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- The ASN.1 for binary stream representation of trees gives
- most of what is needed. It's the inter-layer encoder (sort of)
- for the OSI suite, and thus has that meaningless aura of
- standards legitimacy which helps in promoting something
- new as a standard. "Look! It builds on previous standards!"
-
- Pardon my ignorance, but could someone explain in a little more detail just
- what ASN.1 is?
-
- --Mitch
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