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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Portability across architectures..
Keywords: Portability, common data, files
Message-ID: <3942@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: 14 Sep 88 03:43:40 GMT
References: <103@simsdevl.UUCP> <7038@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
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In article <7038@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> scs@adam.pika.mit.edu (Steve Summit)
writes:
[numerous arguments in favor of using ASCII text for portability]

Counterarguments:

1.   ASCII text is likely to be very bulky.

2.   All modern hardware architectures can use 8-bit bytes, so ASCII
     is unnecesssary except for older machines.  (Think "networks".)

I suggest encoding the data in bytes using a known byte order.
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Rahul Dhesi         UUCP:  <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee,uunet}!bsu-cs!dhesi