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Unread 10-11-2003, 18:42
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cool...
I am going to try it tonight.

I am a little disturbed by this but I think I will settle down after I break out my Kernighan & Ritchie.

Here is the nub of my concern:

Are we creating processor/compiler specific code (i.e. not portable code)? The library functions for getting and putting data are expecting unsigned character types. The fact that we are sending signed character types to them seems not right somehow (yes I know that we are actually storing an unsigned character in them when we send the data -- the += 127 bit, but it still creeps me out a bit).

Anyway, I will have to try it out.

Thanks for the help.

Joe J.