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Subject: Re: Re: Byte vs. Word Alignment - (nf)
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Date: Thu, 23-Apr-87 04:39:00 EDT
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Posted: Thu Apr 23 04:39:00 1987
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Nf-From: iaoobelix!wagner    Apr 23 10:39:00 1987


Puh! Perhaps, I shouldn't have posted this little article... My mailbox
contained at least two or three responses to my posting every morning.

I should say that I am quite familiar with all the data transmission stuff and
related problems. The article I have posted to the net was just thought as a
useful hint for other people in net.land encountering problems like those
discussed.

Well, XDR is one of the little nice things people (like me) *HAVE* to use if
they don't want to run into a lot of trouble with incompatible data structure
organizations and byte orders. Yet, for quite a number of machines there is
*NO* XDR package what can make data portability a real headache. And, of
course, I didn't get trouble with byte ordering at any time (using `htonl' and
friends).

The article I posted was just to point out the very general alignment problems
one encounters in a heterogenous network without a standardized, machine-
independent external representation formalism.

Yours networkingly,
Juergen Wagner,		     (USENET) ...seismo!unido!iaoobel!wagner
("Gandalf")			 Fraunhofer Institute IAO, Stuttgart