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Re: Passing Stream Data between Client and Server?

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From: bbum
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 18:59
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In article <1993Jan22.111601.15395@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>  
becker@informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Ulrich Becker) writes:
> In article <1993Jan18.203809.6077@ornl.gov> woo@ornl.gov (John W. Wooten)  
writes:
> > [Problem description]
> >
> > The problem is that NXStreams can't be used between proxy objects since  
> > the size of the NXStream can't be determined.  The information can't be  
> > passed as char * since there are imbedded nulls.
> > 
> 
> Why not use bit/byte stuffing?

If one responds to the NXEncoding/NXDecdoing protocol, then you could create  
a wire compatible object that either uses encode/decodeBytes:count: or pass  
an NXData object between the two hosts....

> > [John W. Wooten]
> 
> Ulrich Becker
> 
> Becker@informatik.uni-hamburg.de

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