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From: dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar)
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Subject: Re: Question about "for X'Size use ..."
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Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen) wrote in message news:<dsGwyS7sA3+2@eisner.encompasserve.org>...
> I have not worked with streams, but was wondering if anyone had tried
> using ASN.1 to achieve interoperability.  It solves endian problems
> and the DER representation is rather firm about "only one way to 
> express something".

In GNAT, we use XDR in connection with Annex E to achieve complete
heterogenous interoperability for streams.