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From: Kai_Henningsen@ms.maus.de (Kai Henningsen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: 64 bit architectures and C
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Date: 8 May 91 11:27:00 GMT
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Marco S Hyman marc%dumbcat.sf.ca.us @ SUB schrieb am 04.05.1991, 15:36

MS>In article <226@tdatirv.UUCP> sarima@tdatirv.UUCP (Stanley Friesen) writes:
MS> > Binary communication between machines should use XDR *not* C structures.
MS>
MS>Agreed.  (But please, not ASN.1/BER as someone else suggested :-)

Why that? I might need to do something like that soon, so I'm interested in
your reasons.
If they are not of general interest, my EMail address is

kh@ms.maus.de

MfG Kai