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From: Mark Eichin <eichin@cygnus.com>
Subject: Re: Building portable data structure (NOT a newbie question?)
Date: 1996/12/27
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Date: 1996-12-27T00:00:00+00:00
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sounds like a stream that used XDR or ASN.1 for it's over-the-wire
encoding would be useful; I recall seeing at least examples of both of
these mentioned here, though I don't recally anything quite that
complete.