On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 9:18 AM, Dan Sommers <dan at tombstonezero.net> wrote: > Quick: how long is the byte array that displays as '\xff'? Too easy? > What about '\0xff' and '0\xff'? 1, 4, 2 bytes respectively. Yep, easy... but then, I'm used to reading backslash escapes. Nothing to do with text vs bytes. DNS, of course, is different. ChrisA