From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619) In-Reply-To: <200412142248.iBEMmJJ20061@augusta.math.psu.edu> References: <200412142248.iBEMmJJ20061@augusta.math.psu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: jim Subject: Re: [9fans] (no subject) Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 23:00:40 +0000 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 1637a63a-eace-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On 14 Dec 2004, at 22:48, Dan Cross wrote: > You don't. In the > specific case you mention, you write code to marshal it into and > demarshal it from a byte stream. Aha. I suppose I'm in over my head here; I can't really see what you mean by 'marshal'; is that a technical term? Are you talking about progressively slicing bytes off a stream to get each value? /me starts googling... ;-p