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Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 20:45:10 -0300
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From: Cesar Scarpini Rabak <csrabak AT dce03 DOT ipt DOT br>
Subject: Re: Writing a struct to disk
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At 18:17 25/08/97 +0000, John M. Aldrich wrote:
>
>But your concerns are valid, which brings up another point:  is there
>such a thing as a universal format for data exchange?  GNU seems to
>think so; at least, all of their files are in text format and they have
>very few problems.
>

For the first part of question, the answer (albeit unfortunateky) is no. The
second part (in fact the observation you make), is correct, but their aim is
a free 32 bit os and not ultimate universality.
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