Portability across architectures..
Rahul Dhesi
dhesi at bsu-cs.UUCP
Wed Sep 14 13:43:40 AEST 1988
In article <7038 at bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> scs at 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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