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Article #73849Re: Patent on a standard-byte order for intermachine communication
From: Amanda Walker
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1991 01:37
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1991 01:37
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minar@reed.edu (Nelson Minar) writes: Doesn't ftp use a standard byte ordering scheme down on the TCP/IP level to communicate its information? Nope. FTP is all ASCII-based. Now, it's possible that printable ASCII numbers fall under the patent, since they impose a MSB-first byte order... :-P. -- Amanda Walker amanda@visix.com Visix Software Inc. ...!uunet!visix!amanda -- "Clearly, the solution here is to hunt down the author and kill him. I believe this solution to be language independent. And so much fun..." --Garry Hodgson, remarking on a code fragment in comp.object
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,9a4c815047ed049b X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1991-07-22 01:25:08 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!math.fu-berlin.de!rusmv1!ira.uka.de!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!pacbell.com!lll-winken!uunet!visix!news From: amanda@visix.com (Amanda Walker) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: Patent on a standard-byte order for intermachine communication Message-ID: <1991Jul22.013710.1418@visix.com> Date: 22 Jul 91 01:37:10 GMT References: <gnusenet9107131607.AA14833@mole.gnu.ai.mit.edu> <1991Jul16.032523.3653@edsr.eds.com> <jim.679871441@piggy> <m0k1lfO-0000XZC@vishnu.reed.edu> Sender: news@visix.com Organization: Visix Software Inc., Reston, VA Lines: 16