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Re: should "use byte" be "use bytes"?

From:
Mark Mielke
Date:
February 9, 2000 12:32
Subject:
Re: should "use byte" be "use bytes"?
Message ID:
20000209153342.B3801@pcard12x.ca.nortel.com
On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 01:24:59PM -0700, "Tom Christiansen" wrote:
> >I prefer octets, as that is what all the RFC's seem to call them. 
> Si on a envie de parler non-anglais, alors bien, mais pour
> les autres, you have to admit that bytes is more what people
> are used to pensing about.
> --tom

If they can't understand it, perhaps they shouldn't be using it in
the first place?

mark

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