From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) In-Reply-To: <3b8ca08e65a47af482e25d1b764043bd@plan9.bell-labs.com> References: <3b8ca08e65a47af482e25d1b764043bd@plan9.bell-labs.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <20A49DB2-5E13-40C5-93B9-D15D487D649B@orthanc.ca> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Lyndon Nerenberg Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: echo -n Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 20:17:27 -0800 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Topicbox-Message-UUID: e676c8f0-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Nov 21, 2006, at 5:32 PM, dmr@plan9.bell-labs.com wrote: > 8th edition streams began to transmit them > over pipes (or networks). Since this thread started I've been nagged by the memory of UUCP's 'e' protocol. If my brain hasn't completely cached out, 'e' used the ability of Datakit to preserve 0-length messages as an inband delimiter, vs. the 't' protocols use of explicit protocol field length counters. (Or was it 'x' that used null read/write ops ... ?) --lyndon