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From: robert@cheviot.uucp (Robert Stroud)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: Converting structs of binary data among machine types
Message-ID: <451@cheviot.uucp>
Date: Fri, 4-Oct-85 06:20:25 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct  4 06:20:25 1985
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In article <706@inset.UUCP> mikeb@inset.UUCP (Mike Banahan) writes:
>As well as the Sun Xternal Data Representation (XDR), there is
>an ISO X.something proposal for the same thing. Anyone remember the number?
>-- 
>Mike Banahan, Technical Director, The Instruction Set Ltd.
>mcvax!ukc!inset!mikeb

This is part of the CCITT X.400 series. I think the data encoding standard
is X.409. The Sun standard is at least in part a programming interface to
such a protocol - I doubt the X.400 stuff gets that specific.

Robert Stroud,
Computing Laboratory,
University of Newcastle upon Tyne.

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