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Re: Help on ASN.1

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From: Craig Partridge
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 1990 12:31
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>I have to understand some protocoll specifications which are written using 
>ASN.1, so I have to learn ASN.1. Unfortunatly the description in the CCITT
>Blue-Book (X.208) is not very easy to read. Can anybody out there point me to
>some better description of ASN.1, some paper/articles which can help me learn
>it faster ?

First, read the ISO versions of the CCITT standards -- much, much more readable.
They're ISO 8824 and 8825.

Second, take a peek at Marshall Rose's tutorial in "The Open Book", published
by Prentice Hall.

Craig Partridge
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