Goran Eriksson on 30 Mar 99 in NET_DEV

Hello Goran

 SA>> Did anyone ever sort out a workable text-based packet format?
 GE> Text-base packet formats have been proposed.
 GE> Whether they are workable or not is something you will have to decide
 GE> for yourself.

I think so, yes. Perhaps not as space-efficient as a binary header, but
we've all got compression and bandwidth is not the issue it was ten
years ago.

 GE> However, I cannot recall ever having seen an implementation of such a
 GE> format.

Me neither, and that's the problem. One way of doing it, if the 'big'
tosser authors maybe intend to implement it, is a stand-alone conversion
program that converts to and fro?

--
Simon

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