Re: User define attributes

["Samuel T. Harris" <u61783@gsde.hou.us.ray.com>]

Georg Bauhaus wrote:
> 
> Samuel T. Harris (u61783@gsde.hou.us.ray.com) wrote:
> 
> : One of the inconveniences in my experience with using streams
> : or other binary representation for transmission is that I
> : cannot simply use a network sniffer to spoof the contents.
> : If I'm passing all data packets with textual contents, I can
> : read what a distributed system is doing with any old spoofer.
> 
> So you could write your own 'Write or 'Output and
> use text streams. Am I missing something?

My prior effort was for Ada 83, no streams.

While what you suggest would work, there is a lot more
overhead to setting up streams.

And it doesn't address my original question, if the
mechanism was in place to define streams, why is it
not in place for image/value/width?

-- 
Samuel T. Harris, Principal Engineer
Raytheon, Aerospace Engineering Services
"If you can make it, We can fake it!"