Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!gatech!bloom-beacon!husc6!cmcl2!brl-adm!brl-smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Size of SysV "block" (really: byte != 8 bits) Message-ID: <6144@brl-smoke.ARPA> Date: Tue, 21-Jul-87 14:13:31 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-smok.6144 Posted: Tue Jul 21 14:13:31 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 23-Jul-87 04:18:02 EDT References: <218@astra.necisa.oz> <142700010@tiger.UUCP> <2792@phri.UUCP> <857@bsu-cs.UUCP> Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB)) Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD. Lines: 6 In article <857@bsu-cs.UUCP> dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) writes: >A byte is therefore exactly 8 bits. No more and no less. Opinions to >the contrary belong in the 1960s. Let them lie there and die there. And people who believe that 8 bits is sufficiently to encode a character are either naive or stupid.