Octets calculation?

Tue Jun 10 23:41:38 EDT 2003

Tyreal wrote:
> I was reading over the POP3 RFC  (RFC 1939) and it states that message sizes must be
> in octets, but that it's different in bytes in that they are nonambigious (ie. bytes vary from platform
> to platform).

In my experience, this supposed ambiguity about the meaning
of the word "byte" is something that only exists in the
rarified imaginations of standards writers. In the real
world, nobody ever uses it to mean anything other than
8 bits.

-- 
Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept,
University of Canterbury,	
Christchurch, New Zealand
http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg