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From: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
To: Thunder from the hill <thunder@ngforever.de>
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Subject: Re: 2.5.28 and partitions
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On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, Thunder from the hill wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, Alexander Viro wrote:
> > More powerful?
> 
> Well, compared to ASCII: it's unlikely that you meet a j letter or a \033 
> in the size string.

Huh???  That's a new meaning of "powerful"...  If you mean "more compact"
I would certainly agree (base-10 instead of base-256), but if _that_ becomes
a problem with partition tables...  IIRC, OP proposed 4096 bytes for table.

Again, if somebody really can't check if array of characters is a valid
representation of integer or can't implement conversion of known valid
one to its value...  What the devil are you doing here?

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