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From: "Samuel T. Harris" <u61783@gsde.hou.us.ray.com>
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Subject: Re: User define attributes
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 16:00:26 -0500
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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?
> 
> Georg

Yes, read what I wrote before.

My original concept was year ago way before Ada 95.
Even with Ada 95, streams have additional overhead.

And this does not address my original question of
why are streams smart and image/value isn't.

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