From: Ruszlán Gaszanov (ruszlan@ather.net)
Date: Tue Jun 02 2009 - 13:18:04 CDT
William_J_G Overington wrote:
> On Tuesday 2 June 2009, Hans Aberg <haberg@math.su.se> wrote:
>
>
>> On 2 Jun 2009, at 05:40, Doug Ewell
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>>> Besides, there are many fine transfer encoding
>>>>>
>> syntaxes available for transmitting binary data that don't
>> involve pretending that the data is text.
>>
>>>> Yes sure, but unfortunately, they can't be used in
>>>>
>> argument passing. Setting up IPC just to get some arguments
>> and environmental variables is overkill. And it would not
>> illustrate the idea of passing objects in the arguments.
>>
>>> I wasn't aware that the purpose of all this was to
>>>
>> illustrate an idea.
>>
>> If you want the Unix standard to accept object passing in
>> the arguments, then the requirement is that you make your
>> own Unix implementation and demonstrates it works.
>>
>> Hans
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
> I have expressed various non-text items as characters at various times.
>
> Maybe one of them would be suitable for your demonstration.
>
> Each of them uses code points in the Private Use Area.
>
> A vector graphics system, eutocode graphics.
>
> http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/ast03000.htm
>
> http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/ast03100.htm
>
> A font format, the eutofont font format.
>
> http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/eutofont.htm
>
> A portable interpretable object code for a virtual computing machine.
>
> http://forum.high-logic.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=2364
>
> If none of the above is suitable for your purposes, then the Private Use Area is available for you to define a system of your own.
>
> William Overington
>
> 2 June 2009
>
What's wrong with passing b64-encoded binary data?
R.
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