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On Fri, November 15, 2013 3:57 pm, Uche Ogbuji wrote: > On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 8:46 AM, David Sheets <kosmo.zb@gmail.com> wrote: ... > And no, I do not believe that text technologies are right for transmitting > either null-terminated strings or BLOBs. Why not? Because they're not Yet you'd have no trouble attaching either a graphic or a Zip file to an email message. > designed for it. You can start learning how so by trying to put a > null-terminated string into XML. > >> If I decided to use null-terminated strings to transmit a binary blob, >> would it be a "C WTF"? > > Of course not, because C is designed for that. Terrible things would happen with the C if there was a null character in the binary blob. Regards, Tony Graham tgraham@mentea.net Consultant http://www.mentea.net Mentea 13 Kelly's Bay Beach, Skerries, Co. Dublin, Ireland -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- XML, XSL-FO and XSLT consulting, training and programming Chair, Print and Page Layout Community Group @ W3C
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