> On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 07:00, <[email protected]> wrote: > > > problem is, its not alwas ggoig to be two bytes... > > It's always two bytes, but people may choose to omit them. That is a > social, not a (purely) technical, syntax, though. > > > Richard
That's exactly what I was going to say but didn't want to quibble. We tend to call them "quads" at work. What do you call that indeterminate space between two colons :: where it might be four or more zeros in there? That's a bunch of nibbles, maybe a "gulp"?
