Portability across architectures..

[Rahul Dhesi]

In article <7038 at bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> scs at adam.pika.mit.edu (Steve Summit)
writes:
[numerous arguments in favor of using ASCII text for portability]

Counterarguments:

1.   ASCII text is likely to be very bulky.

2.   All modern hardware architectures can use 8-bit bytes, so ASCII
     is unnecesssary except for older machines.  (Think "networks".)

I suggest encoding the data in bytes using a known byte order.
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