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Re: sized types, and ridding ourselves of them

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Y. Ts'o)
Mon Oct 20 20:22:52 1997

Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 20:21:59 -0400
From: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU>
To: Marc Horowitz <marc@cygnus.com>
Cc: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU>, Ken Hornstein
	<kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>,
        krbdev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Marc Horowitz's message of 20 Oct 1997 19:42:18 -0400,
	<t53lnzof1d1.fsf@rover.cygnus.com>

   From: Marc Horowitz <marc@cygnus.com>
   Date: 20 Oct 1997 19:42:18 -0400

   You have to use sized types on the wire.  That's not what I'm talking
   about.

That's not necessary true.  You could use ASN.1  :-)  

(but it would be a bad idea)

						- Ted

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