On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 07:23:55AM -0500, Peter da Silva wrote:
> On Aug 3, 2007, at 6:47, David Cantrell wrote:
> >On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 02:32:20PM -0500, Peter da Silva wrote:
> >>> Please have the length of strings upfront.
> >>Length encoding isn't self-syncing,
> >Better that than not being able to easily pass arbitrary data, which
> >might include NULLs.
> As parameters to programs that are going to use them in UNIX system
> calls?
I want only one kind of string thankyouverymuch.
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